A plant family containing tropical and subtropical shrubs and small trees known for their showy yellow flowers and spiral seed pods.
From Greek 'cochlis' (spiral) + 'sperma' (seed) + '-aceae' (family suffix), referring to the family's characteristic spiral seed arrangement.
Plant families named after seed shapes have helped botanists organize thousands of species—the Cochlospermaceae family's spiral seeds were so distinctive that Carl Linnaeus used them as a defining characteristic.
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