(Last Modified On 11/13/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/13/2012)
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CHRYSOBALANUS L.
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Gen. PI. ed. 5, 229. 1754.
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Description
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A small (possibly monotypic) genus of shrubby plants with entire coriaceous leaves. Flowers white, in axillary cymes; calyx (hypanthium) perigynous, the lobes 5; petals 5; stamens about 20, hirsute, coherent; ovary sessile at the bottom of the hypanthium; ovules 2; style basal. Fruit a drupe with one bony stone having 5-6 angles.
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