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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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Stachyarrhena Hook.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hook., Ic. P1. 1068. 1870.
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TYPE: S. spicata Hook. f.
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Description
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Dioecious trees, unarmed, the branchlets glabrous. Leaves lanceolate, the lateral veins scarcely evident, strongly coriaceous, shiny, smooth, glabrous; pet- ioles rigid, stipules connate, collar shaped, coriaceous, truncate, without teeth or lobes. Flowers terminal, the female flowers solitary, the male flowers sessile, pedicellate, disposed in a stiff narrow spike of well spaced, several flowered clusters, calycine cup thick, glabrous, the lobes obsolete, the margin erosulose; corolla short, carnose, glabrous, the lobes carnose, shorter than the tube. Fruits capsular, the pedicels nodding, elongate; capsule large, oblong, round in cross section, resembling a smooth squash, the wall fleshy, lignose on drying; seeds numerous in a jellylike pulp.
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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known from Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil.
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Note
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The genus has about 8 species. The plate appearing with the original description of the genus beautifully illustrates the fruit.
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