Couroupita

Couroupita
	Couroupita guianensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Ericales
Family:	Lecythidaceae
Subfamily:	Lecythidoideae
Genus:	Couroupita; Aubl.
Synonyms
	Pontopidana Scop.; Pekea Juss. 1789, illegitimate homonym, not Aubl. 1775. (syn of Caryocar in Caryocaraceae); Elsholtzia Neck. 1790 illegitimate homonym, not Willd. 1790 (Lamiaceae);

Couroupita is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lecythidaceae first described as a genus in 1775.^[2]^[3] It is native to tropical South America and Central America.^[1]

Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball tree -Guyana, Colombia, Ecuador east to Amapá and south to Bolivia; naturalized in the West Indies as well as in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Andaman & Nicobar
Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala de cañón, coco de mono, paraíso, zapote de mico, or zapote de mono -Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama
Couroupita subsessilis - northern Brazil, northern Peru

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