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(Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/28/2013)
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Genus
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Lindackeria C. Presl
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Reliq. Haenk. 2: 89, pl. 65, 1835.
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Description
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Shrubs or trees, unarmed. Leaves alternate, petiolate, the petiole often elongate and pulvinate at the apex, the stipules none or early caducous, the blade rather large, entire-margined or the margins dentate, glabrous or pilose below, the hairs simple or stellate, penninerved. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, short to elongate, racemose or paniculate, usually many-flowered, infrequently flowers solitary. Flowers rather small, hermaphroditic or male by abortion, pedicellate, the bracts early caducous; sepals 3, imbricate; petals 6-12, imbricate, equalling ? the sepals; stamens oo, the fila- ments filiform, free or rarely united into a tube, the anthers basifixed, linear, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary shortly stipitate, smooth, muricate, or echinulate, usually hairy, 1-locular, with 3 parietal placentas, the placentas pauci- or multi- ovulate, the style simple, the stigma simple or obscurely 3-lobulate. Fruits capsular, globose, coriaceous to ligneous, tuberculate or echinate, tardily 3-valvate; seeds few, ovoid, the endosperm copious, the embryo large, the cotyledons large, cordate, foliaceous.
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Habit
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Shrubs or trees
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Distribution
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About 12 species in the tropics of Africa a'nd America; only the following species reported from Panama and Central America.
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