Coatesia

Coatesia
Young specimen in the Main Range, Queensland, Australia.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Subfamily: Zanthoxyloideae
Genus: Coatesia
F.Muell.[2]
Species:
C. paniculata
Binomial name
Coatesia paniculata
F.Muell.[1]
Synonyms
  • Geijera helmsiae F.M.Bailey
  • Geijera muelleri Benth. nom. illeg.
  • Geijera paniculata (F.Muell.) Druce

Coatesia is a genus of plant containing the single species Coatesia paniculata, commonly known as axe-breaker or capivi,[3] and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a small, evergreen tree with simple, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves, panicles of white flowers on the ends of branchlets or in leaf axils and fused follicles with one black seed in each follicle.

  1. ^ "Coatesia paniculata". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Coatesia". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 July 2020.
  3. ^ F.A.Zich; B.P.M.Hyland; T.Whiffen; R.A.Kerrigan (2020). "Coatesia paniculata". Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Edition 8 (RFK8). Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research (CANBR), Australian Government. Retrieved 30 June 2021.