Palicourea
''Palicourea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Rubiaceae. It contains 694 species, which range from shrubs to small trees, and is distributed throughout the New World tropics.Taylor (2008) These plants are closely related to ''Psychotria'' and in particular its subgenus ''Heteropsychotria''. Indeed, it seems to be nothing else but a distinctively-flowered offshoot of ''Heteropsychotria''; arguably, it would thus need to be merged into ''Psychotria'' to make that genus monophyletic. On the other hand, ''Psychotria'' is extremely diverse already, so it is probably more practical to move the more distantly related species out of this genus and merge ''Heteropsychotria'' with ''Palicourea''. By a Hungarian botanist Attila Borhidi, some of the ''Psychotria'' species have been transferred into this genus. The genus is not well studied. Most species are Distyly, distylous, although a few on isolated Caribbean islands seem to have lost the trait. Flowers a ...
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Palicourea Calothyrsus
''Palicourea calothyrsus'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is Endemism, endemic to Ecuador. References

Flora of Ecuador Palicourea, calothyrsus Vulnerable plants Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Kurt Krause Taxa named by Karl Moritz Schumann {{Rubiaceae-stub ...
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