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Coleostachys

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Coleostachys
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Malpighiaceae
Genus: Coleostachys
A.Juss.
Species:
C. genipifolia
Binomial name
Coleostachys genipifolia
A.Juss.

Coleostachys is a genus in the Malpighiaceae, a family of about 75 genera of flowering plants in the order Malpighiales. Coleostachys contains only one species (Coleostachys genipifolia) of shrubs or treelets found in wet forests of the Amazonian lowlands of French Guiana and adjacent Brazil.

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