''Dicarpellum'' is a

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of shrubs and small trees in the family ''

Celastraceae The Celastraceae (staff-vine or bittersweet) are a family of 98 genera and 1,350 species of herbs, vines, shrubs and small trees, belonging to the order Celastrales. The great majority of the genera are tropical, with only ''Celastrus'' (the staf ...

''. The genus is endemic to

New Caledonia New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...

in the Pacific and contains four species. Its closest relative is '' Hypsophila'' from

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.Simmons, M. P., M. J. McKenna, C. D. Bacon, K. Yakobson, J. J. Cappa, R. H. Archer, and A. J. Ford. (2012) Phylogeny of Celastraceae Tribe Euonymeae Inferred from Morphological Characters and Nuclear and Plastid Genes.” Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62 (1): 9–20.

List of species

* '' Dicarpellum baillonianum'' * '' Dicarpellum pancheri'' * '' Dicarpellum paucisepalum'' * '' Dicarpellum pronyense''

References

Celastraceae Celastrales genera Endemic flora of New Caledonia Taxa named by Ludwig Eduard Theodor Loesener {{Celastraceae-stub