Glossary Details – Lecythidaceae

Glossary Details:

Title: Canopy of a tree of Couratari guianensis in flower. Photo by R. Aguilar.

Description: Canopy of a tree of Couratari guianensis in flower based on Reinaldo Aguilar 11365 from the Osa Peninsula, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. This species drops its leaves, flowers, and then flushes new leaves after it has flowered. It is a polycarpic species which means that it flowers year after year.

Term:

Pleionanthy (pleionanthic, pleionanthous)

Definition:

Referring to plants that flower repeatedly; i.e., those that do not die after a single flowering. Same as polycarpous and iteroparous; opposite of hapaxanthic and monocarpic.