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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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Genus
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Simira Aubl.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hist. P1. Guiane 1: 170. 1775.
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Note
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TYPE: S. tinc- toria Aublet.
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Synonym
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Sickingia Wills., Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Neue Schriften 3: 445. 1800. TYPE: S. erythroxylon Willd. Arariba Mart., Sitzb. Akad. Munch. 323. 1860. LECTOTYPE: A. rubra Mart.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs, the wood turning red to purple on cutting. Leaves large; stipules persistent or caducous, usually large and glandular basally. Inflores- cences terminal or axillary, paniculate, the flowers in cymes or capitate. Flowers pedicellate or sessile, bibracteolate; calycine cup cupuliform or bell shaped, trun- cate, edentate or with 4-6 teeth; corolla variable in color, fragrant, tubular to campanulate, the lobes 4-5, imbricate; stamens 4-6, exserted, the anthers dor- sifixed, sagittate at the base, the filaments connate basally, attached near the middle or at the base of the tube, villous; ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, horizontally biseriate. Fruits capsular, usually globose, loculicidally dehiscent; seeds numerous, large, winged horizontally.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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ranges from Mexico through Central America and South America.
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Note
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a genus of about 35 species.
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Reference
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Bremekamp, C. E. B. 1954. The identity of Simira tinctoria Aubl., Acta Bot. Neerl. 3: 150-153.
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Key
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a. Leaves ovate or oblong rotund; fruits 3-6 cm in diam. b. Trees to 5 m tall; corolla 3.5-5.5 mm long (fide Steyermark); fruits ca. 3 cm in diam. ...... 2. S. klugei bb. Trees to 20 m tall; corolla to 8 mm long; fruits ca. 6 cm in diam. ...... 3. S. maxonii aa. Leaves oblong; fruits ca. 1.3 cm in diam. ...... 1. S. darienensis
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