title: Dicypellium
text: # Dicypellium
  
  Dicypellium is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Lauraceae, native to tropical South America, in Amazon Basin.
  
  Diagnostic characters: they are trees, with the flowers not involucrated, 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 cloves.
  
  