page_title: Cecropia
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Cecropia / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: Arenal Hanging Bridges, Costa Rica
context_page_description: Cecropia is a Neotropical genus consisting of 61 recognized species with a highly distinctive lineage of dioecious trees.
  The genus consists of pioneer trees in the more or less humid parts of the Neotropics, with the majority of the species being myrmecophytic. Berg and Rosselli state that the genus is characterized by some unusual traits: spathes fully enclosing the flower-bearing parts of the inflorescences until anthesis, patches of dense indumentums producing Mullerian at the base of the petiole, and anthers becoming detached at anthesis. Cecropia is most studied for its ecological role and association with ants. Its classification is controversial; in the past, it has been placed in the Cecropiaceae, Moraceae, or Urticaceae. The modern Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system places the "cecropiacean" group in the Urticaceae.
  The genus is native to the American tropics, where it is one of the most recognizable components of the rainforest. The genus is named after Cecrops I, the mythical first king of Athens. Common local names include yarumo or yagrumo, or more specifically yagrumo hembra to distinguish them from the similar-looking but unrelated Schefflera.
context_section_description: Cecropia concolor Willd.
  Cecropia glaziovii Snethl. – red cecropia
  Cecropia hololeuca Miq.
  Cecropia insignis Liebm.
  Cecropia longipes
  Cecropia lyratiloba Miq.
  Cecropia maxima
  Cecropia maxonii
  Cecropia multiflora
  Cecropia myrtluca
  Cecropia obtusifolia
  Cecropia pachystachya Trécul – Ambay pumpwood, ambay (= C. adenopus)
  Cecropia palmata Willd.
  Cecropia pastasana
  Cecropia peltata L. – Shield-leaved pumpwood, bois canôt, "trumpet tree"
  Cecropia pittieri
  Cecropia polyphlebia
  Cecropia polystachya Trécul
  Cecropia schreberiana Miq.
  Cecropia schreberiana ssp. antillarum (Snethl.) C.C.Berg & P.Franco (= C. antillarum)
  Cecropia schreberiana ssp. schreberiana
  Cecropia sciadophylla Mart.
  Cecropia tubulosa
  Cecropia utcubambana
  Cecropia velutinella
caption: Cecropia insignis foliage
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