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Coursetia caribaea
Coursetia caribaea, with no English name, though sometimes the Spanish name of anil falso is used, plus all species of the genus Coursetia likely are to be called babybonnets, is a shrub or subshrub native to tropical and subtropical parts the Americas. It belongs to the family Fabaceae.
In the USA, Coursetia caribaea occurs only in the state of Arizona. In Mexico and Central America it is found throughout, and in South America it occurs in Venezuela in the northwest, then south to Bolivia and adjacent Brazil. In the Caribbean are it inhabits Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, the Venezuelan Antilles and the Windward Islands.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Coursetia caribaea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
