Coccoloba rigida (Coccoloba rigida)
Description
Especially the coccoloba rigida is flowering plant . Ning first described by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow and Melssn .. The Coccoloba rigida covered kahenera Coccoloba the family Polygonaceae . Coccoloba is a genus of about 120-150 species of flowering plants in the family Polygonaceae. The genus is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, in South America, the Caribbean and Central America, with two species extending into Florida.The species are shrubs and trees, mostly evergreen. The leaves are alternate, often large (to very large in some species; up to 36 in (90 cm) wide in C. pubescens), with the leaves on juvenile plants often larger and of different shape to those of mature plants. The flowers are produced in spikes. The fruit is a three-angled achene, surrounded by an often brightly coloured fleshy perianth, edible in some species, though often astringent.There is no overall English name for the genus, although many of the individual species have widely used common names.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Caryophyllales
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Family: Polygonaceae
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Genus: Coccoloba
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