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(Last Modified On 7/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/2/2013)
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Genus
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Leretia Vell.
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Fl. Flum. 99. 1825
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Note
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TYPE: L. cordata Vell.
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Description
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Lianas, shrubs or small trees with scrambling branches. Leaves alternate, .short-petioled, entire. Inflorescences axillary, much-branched cymes or panicles. Flowers articulated to short-bracteate pedicels, perfect, rarely unisexual by abor- tion; calyx lobes 5, subacute to rounded; petals 5, free, valvate with inflexed tips; stamens 5, the filaments filiform, the connective extended to an inconspicuous -tip; pistil asymmetrical, usually with 2 rudimentary styles, the functional style glabrous, the stigma capitate, the ovary hirsute with a columnar base, the ovules 2. Fruits drupaceous, glabrate, ovoid ellipsoid, slightly flattened, the apex obliquely umbonate, the mesocarp thin, the putamen tenuous, smooth; seed 1, the *embryo with wrinkled cotyledons, the endosperm present.
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Habit
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Lianas, shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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A single polymorphic species has been collected in Brazil, British Guiana, Venezuela, and Peru.
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Reference
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Howard, R. A. 1942. Studies of the Icacinaceae II. Humirianthera, Leretia, Mappia and Nothapodytes, valid genera of the Icacineae. J. Arnold Arbor. 23: 55-78.
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