Dicypellium

Dicypellium is a genus of the laurel family, which occurs with two species in the Brazilian Amazon basin. Dicypellium caryophyllaceum is used for its aromatic bark and is now considered an endangered species

Features

Dicypellium have opposite leaves with spring-like venation. The flowers are in few-flowered panicles botryoide. They are triple with deep cup-shaped base of the flower. The perianth consists of the outer two whorls with six similar tepals exist. This is followed by a circle tepalenartiger, sterile stamens, a feature which is otherwise within the family only in the class Phyllostemonodaphne. The six stamens of the inner whorl are fertile, have four -chambered anthers on short filaments to and are studded with glands. A fourth whorl with triangular staminodes is usually not available. The fruit is flat remaining cup-shaped with a double edge and on the fruit, enlarged and hardened tepals.

Species

• Dicypellium caryophyllaceum ( Mart. ) Nees
• Dicypellium manausense W.A.Rodrigues

Swell

• Klaus Kubitzki, Jens G. Rohwer, Volker Bittrich (ed.): Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Magnoliid, Hamamelid and Caryophyllid Families. Springer, 1993, ISBN 9783540555094, p 383
• Henk van der Werff: A Key to the genera of Lauraceae in the New World. In: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 78, No. 2, 1991, pp. 377-387.
• Philipp Lorenz Geiger and Christian Gottfried Nees von Esenbeck: Pharmaceutische botany. In: C. F. Winter. 1, No. 2, 1839, p 342 ( books.google.de ).