Cunonia
Genus of flowering plants
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Cunonia is a genus of shrubs and trees in the family Cunoniaceae. The genus has a disjunct distribution, with 24 species endemic to New Caledonia in the Pacific, and one species (Cunonia capensis) in Southern Africa. Leaves are opposite, simple or pinnate with a margin entire to serrate. Interpetiolar stipules are often conspicuous and generally enclose buds to form a spoon-like shape (hence the common name "butterspoon tree" for Cunonia capensis). Flowers are bisexual, white, red (pink to purple), or green, arranged in racemes. The fruit is a capsule opening first around the base then vertically, seeds are winged.[1][2]
| Cunonia | |
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| Cunonia capensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Cunoniaceae |
| Genus: | Cunonia L. |
| Species | |
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Cunonia × alticola | |
List of species
Southern Africa
New Caledonia[2]
- Cunonia × alticola Guillaumin
- Cunonia aoupiniensis Hoogland
- Cunonia atrorubens Schltr.
- Cunonia austrocaledonica Brongn. ex Guillaumin
- Cunonia balansae Brongn. & Gris
- Cunonia bopopensis Pillon & H.C. Hopkins
- Cunonia bullata Brongn. & Gris
- Cunonia cerifera Hoogland
- Cunonia deplanchei Brongn. & Gris
- Cunonia dickisonii Pillon & H.C. Hopkins
- Cunonia × koghicola H.C. Hopkins, J. Bradford & Pillon
- Cunonia lenormandii Vieill. ex Brongn. & Gris
- Cunonia linearisepala (Guillaumin) Bernardi
- Cunonia macrophylla Brongn. & Gris
- Cunonia montana (Brongn. & Gris) Schltr.
- Cunonia pseudoverticillata Guillaumin
- Cunonia pterophylla (Brongn. & Gris) Schltr.
- Cunonia pulchella Brongn. & Gris
- Cunonia purpurea Brongn. & Gris
- Cunonia rotundifolia Däniker
- Cunonia rupicola Hoogland
- Cunonia schinziana Däniker
- Cunonia varijuga Hoogland
- Cunonia vieillardii Brongn. & Gris