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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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Species
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LAGUNCULARIA Gaertn. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fruct. 3:209. t. 2I7. 1807.
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Synonym
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Horau Adans. Fam. 2:80, 585. 1763. Sphenocar pus Rich. Demonstr. Bot. 92. 1808. Rhizaeris Raf. Sylv. Tellur. 90. 1838.
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Note
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The name Laguncularia Gaertn. f. is antedated by Horau Adans. and should be conserved.
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Description
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Small trees and shrubs. Flowers sessile, 5-merous, mostly perfect with occa- sional staminate in terminal panicles of elongated spikes with additional spikes in the axils of the upper leaves. Receptacle infundibuliform, scarcely produced beyond the ovary, with 2 small adnate bracteoles near the apex and crowned with the persistent calyx. Petals 5, small. Stamens 10, biseriate, not exserted. Disk l0-rayed. Style subulate, capitate at the apex. Ovary unilocular with 2 pendulous ovules. Fruit almost sessile, longitudinally ribbed or narrowly winged, pericarp leathery.
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Habit
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trees shrubs
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Distribution
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A genus comprising one or perhaps two species inhabiting mangrove-swamps in tropical America and western tropical Africa and often dominant in such habitats
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