Coatesia | |
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Young specimen in the Main Range, Queensland, Australia. | |
Scientific 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
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Binomial name | |
Coatesia paniculata F.Muell.[1]
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Synonyms | |
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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.