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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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Genus
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CELTIS L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 2:1043. 1753.
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Synonym
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Mertensia HBK. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2:30. 1817, non L. Momisia F. G. Dietr. in Vollst. Lexik. Gaertn. Nachtr. 5:122. 1819. Saurobromna Raf. Sylva Tellur. 3 2. 18 3 8. Solenostigma Endl. Prod. Fl. Norf. 41. 1833.
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Description
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Polygamo-monoecious or monoecious shrubs or trees, unarmed or with spinose branches. Leaves alternate, distichous, often inequilateral, serrate or entire; peti- olate; stipules lateral. Inflorescences borne on this year's wood: staminate inflorescence cymose or fasciculate, pistillate inflorescence solitary or few-flowered fasciculate. Flowers small, pedicellate. Bisexual flowers: sepals 4-5, more or less connate at the base; stamens as many as and opposite the calyx lobes, the anther dehiscence extrorse, disc present; ovary sessile, 1-locular, the styles 2, sometimes united at the base, reflexed. Staminate flowers with rudimentary pistil. Pistillate flowers without staminodes. Fruit an ovoid or subglobose drupe, the embryo curved, the cotyledons broad, conduplicate or rarely flat, variously folded.
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Habit
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shrub tree
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Distribution
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Approximately 75 species, widely distributed in temperate and tropical regions. Only 1 represented in Panama.
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