(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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Genus
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Elaeagnia Wedd.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Monogr. Cinch. 94. 1849.
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Note
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TYPE: E. utilis (Goud.) Wedd.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves coriaceous, petiolate; stipules free or connate. Info- rescences large, terminal, paniculate or rarely racemose. Flowers small, the ca- lycine cup 5-lobed, inflated, persistent; corolla reduced, infundibuliform, cylin- drical or somewhat bell shaped, the throat villous, the lobes 5, recurved, contorted in bud; stamens 5, the anthers oblong, dorsifixed, the filaments exsert- ed, geniculate at the base; ovarian disc orbicular, the style short, the stigmas 2, obtuse, the ovules numerous, the placentas peltately affixed to the septum. Fruits capsular, small, loculicidally dehiscent into 2 valves, these split apically; seeds minute, the testa membranous.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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a genus of about 15 species, ranges from Central America to South America. It also occurs in Cuba.
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Reference
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Steyermark, J. S. 1965. Botany of the Guayana Highland-Part VI. Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 12: 186-192.
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Key
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a. Leaves short pilose beneath; petioles less than 1 cm long; fruits ca. 4.5 mm long ...... 1. E. auriculata aa. Leaves glabrous beneath; petioles 2.0-2.5 cm long; fruits ca. 7 mm long ...... 2. E. nitidifolia
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