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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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Genus
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Faramea Aubl.
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Hist. P1. Guiane 1: 102. 1775.
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TYPE: F. corymbosa Aubl.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves often coriaceous; stipules usually entire, free or con- nate, usually awned, the base usually ovate triangular. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, often disposed as loose decussate panicles or umbellate cymes, ulti- mately cymose; bracts present or absent, occasionally with 2 large bracts at the base of the inflorescence; pedicels often stout, stiff. Flowers 4(-5)-merous, ca- lycine cup truncate, teeth present or absent; corolla tubular or salverform, the lobes usually 4, valvate in bud, usually wider than the tube; pollen dimorphic; stigmas disposed as 2 filamentous or clavate lobes, ovary 2-celled, becoming 1-locular with the ovules collateral or connate at the apex of the incomplete septum. Fruits drupaceous, depressed oval to rotund, 1-seeded by fusion of the ovules; seed horizontal, usually with a deep ventral groove.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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well distributed in Central America and tropical South America. It also occurs in the West Indies.
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There are about 125 species in the genus.
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Key
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a. Leaves conspicuously callose marginate. b. Leaves oval (rarely a few oblong oval), 4-9 cm long, acuminate, the acumen less than 0.9 cm long ...... 10. F. ovalis bb.' Leaves oblong or obovate oblong, 10-15 cm long, cuspidate, the acumen 1-1.5 cm long ...... 8. F. luteovirens aa. Leaves not callose marginate. c. Leaves with 2 submarginal veins. d. Leaves 3-7 cm long; flowers ca. 4 per inflorescence ...... 17. F. woodsonii dd. Leaves 7-30 cm long; flowers many per inflorescence. e. Leaves not glaucescent or pruinose beneath; calycine teeth obsolete. f. Leaves oblong, ovate oblong or elliptic, 4-7(-10.5) cm wide; calycine cup minute; corolla white, blue or deep purple ...... 14. F. suerrensis ff. Leaves narrowly elliptic, to 3.5 cm wide; calycine cup ca. 2 mm long; corolla bluish white ...... 13. F. scalaris ee. Leaves glaucescent or pruinose beneath; calycine teeth to 1 mm long ......3. F. bullata cc. Leaves with 1 distinct submarginal vein or lacking a submarginal vein. g. Leaves bullate ...... 1. F. papulata gg. Leaves not bullate. h. Leaves with lateral veins 6-9; inflorescence racemose ...... 2. F. bocataurensis hh. Leaves with lateral veins 10-20; inflorescence not racemose. i. Stipules 2.5-3 cm long; leaves with lateral veins ca. 20. j. Stipules free; inflorescence an ovate, blunt head ...... 4. F . caput-anguis jj. Stipules connate; inflorescence spreading. k. Calycine teeth absent; calycine cup ca. 0.6 mm long ...... 16. F . terreyeae kk. Caylcine teeth ca. 0.5 mm long; calycine cup ca. 1.5 mm long ...... 6. F. jefensis ii. Stipules 0.3-2 cm long; leaves with lateral veins 10-19. 1. Leaves oval or suboval ...... 10. F. ovalis 11. Leaves not oval but elliptic or oblong. m. Leaves with lateral veins 14-17. n. Calycine cup ca. 0.3 cm long; corolla tube ca. 15 mm long; anthers ca. 4 mm long; stipules ca. 0.4 cm long ...... 1. F. altipetens nn. Calycine cup 1-1.2 cm long; corolla tube 25-30 mm long; anthers ca. 8 mm long; stipules 1-1.5 cm long ...... 12. F. pauciflora mm. Leaves with lateral veins 8-13. O. Corolla tube ca. 6.5 mm long; leaves drying emerald green ...... 7. F. liesneri oo. Corolla tube 7-17 mm long; leaves not drying emerald green. p. Anthers ca. 8 mm long ...... 9. F. occidentalis pp. Anthers to 4 mm long. q. Corolla tube 12-17 mm ...... 15. F. talamancarum qq. Corolla tube 7-11.5 mm long. r. Inflorescences ca. 4-flowered; leaves 3-7 cm long ...... 17. F. woodsonii rr. Inflorescences many-flowered; leaves 5-16 cm long ...... 5. F. eurycarpa
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