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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/14/2013)
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Genus
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PHRYGILANTHUS Eichl.
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Mart. Fl. Bras. 5, pt. 2:45. 1868.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees living both on earth, as root parasites, and upon other woody plants. Leaves generally leathery, opposite, rarely reduced to scales. Flowers typically hermaphrodite, hexamerous, seldom 4-8-merous, showy, either solitary or arranged in ternations, these in racemes, corymbs or umbels; bracts and bractlets moderately developed, both persistent and caducous according to the species group. Stamens unequal. Pollen grains 3-lobate, the exine granulose. Ovary surrounded by a well-developed, fleshy disk. Fruit a juicy berry, the seeds albuminous.
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Habit
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Shrubs tree
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Distribution
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The genus embraces about 30 species thriving primarily in South American highlands. Only a few have been gathered in Mexico, Central America and Australia. As said before, this genus is poorly distinct from Gaiadendron (see both figures) and they possibly will later be joined into one.
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