NOUN
- medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark
How To Use Calycophyllum In A Sentence
- It will be remembered that in some of the _Cinchonaceæ_, e.g. _Mussænda_, _Pinckneya_, _Calycophyllum_, one or more of the calycine lobes are normally dilated and petaloid, the others remaining small and comparatively inconspicuous. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- [257] This distinction between laminar and vaginal venation is well seen in cases like _Mussaenda_, _Calycophyllum_, or _Dipterocarpus_, where the enlarged calycine segment has a strictly vaginal arrangement of its veins, very different from that which occurs in the true leaf-blades. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
