# Coutarea

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***Coutarea*** is a [genus](/source/Genus) of [flowering plants](/source/Flowering_plant) in the family [Rubiaceae](/source/Rubiaceae).[1] The genus is native to southern [Mexico](/source/Mexico), [Central America](/source/Central_America), [South America](/source/South_America) and the [West Indies](/source/West_Indies).[2]

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.[3]

## Species

- *[Coutarea andrei](/source/Coutarea_andrei)* [Standl.](/source/Paul_Carpenter_Standley) - [Ecuador](/source/Ecuador), [Peru](/source/Peru)
- *[Coutarea coutaportloides](/source/Coutarea_coutaportloides)* C.M.Taylor - Ecuador
- *[Coutarea diervilloides](/source/Coutarea_diervilloides)* [Planch.](/source/Jules_%C3%89mile_Planchon) & Linden - [Colombia](/source/Colombia)
- *[Coutarea fuchsioides](/source/Coutarea_fuchsioides)* C.M.Taylor - Peru
- *[Coutarea hexandra](/source/Coutarea_hexandra)* ([Jacq.](/source/Nikolaus_Joseph_von_Jacquin)) [K.Schum.](/source/Karl_Moritz_Schumann) - widespread in Latin America
- *[Coutarea mollis](/source/Coutarea_mollis)* [Cham.](/source/Adelbert_von_Chamisso) - [Brazil](/source/Brazil)

## References

1. [Aublet, Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée. 1775. Histoire des Plantes de la Guiane Françoise 1: 314, t. 122](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/362290#page/348/mode/1up)

1. [Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, *Coutarea*](http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=48562)

1. [*Coutarea*.](http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40015606?projectid=34) Selected Rubiaceae Tribes and Genera. Tropicos.

## External links

- [*Coutarea* in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae](http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/qsearch.do?plantName=Coutarea)

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