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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Dicypellium''
| image = Mez tafel 2.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Illustration 17: ''Dicypellium caryophyllatum''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Laurales]]
| familia = [[Lauraceae]]
| genus = '''''Dicypellium''''' [[Nees]] & [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius|Mart.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
''Dicypellium caryophyllatum''<br/>
''Dicypellium manausense''
}}
'''''Dicypellium''''' is a genus of two species of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Lauraceae]], native to tropical [[South America]], in [[Amazon Basin]].
They are [[tree]]s, with the [[flower]]s not involucrated, [[ovary (plants)|ovary]] superior, nine or fewer fertile [[stamens]], [[anthers]] four-locular and nine [[tepals]], and the [[fruit]] with cupules (see illustration).
''[[Dicypellium caryophyllatum]]'', known as "pau-cravo" in [[Brazil]], has bark that smells like [[clove]]s.
==Reference==
* Rohwer, J. G.: The Genera Dicypellium, Phyllostemonodaphne, Systemonodaphne and Urbanodendron (Lauraceae). ''Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik'' 110(2): 157-171, 1988.
[[Category:Laurales]]
{{Laurales-stub}}