Coutarea is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 1: 314, t. 122 The genus is native to southern Mexico, Central America, South America and the West Indies.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Coutarea
These plants are woody trees and shrubs with oppositely arranged leaves and terminal inflorescences. The large, showy flowers are white, pink, red, or purplish, sometimes with whitish or greenish markings. The fruit is a woody, flattened capsule, containing seeds with large wings.Coutarea. Selected Rubiaceae Tribes and Genera. Tropicos.
Species Coutarea andrei Standl. - Ecuador, Peru Coutarea coutaportloides C.M.Taylor - Ecuador Coutarea diervilloides Planch. & Linden - Colombia Coutarea fuchsioides C.M.Taylor - Peru Coutarea hexandra (Jacq.) K.Schum. - widespread in Latin America Coutarea mollis Cham. - Brazil
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Coutarea in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae