Tropicos | Name - !Piptocarpha R. Br.

!Piptocarpha R. Br.

Flora Data (Last Modified On 6/3/2013)

Genus	Piptocarpha R. Brown
PlaceOfPublication	Trans. Linn. Soc. London 12: 121. 1817 (1818).
Note	TYPE: P. brasiliana Cass.
Synonym	Carphobolus Schott, Spreng. Syst. 4: Cur. Post. 409. 1827. Monanthemum Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 354. 1861.
Description	Shrubs, frequently scandent or climbing; branches pubescent with stellate or lepidote trichomes. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades large, ovate to lanceolate, entire to subentire, pinnately veined, glabrous above, often tomentose beneath. Inflorescences usually aggregated in axillary corymbs, umbels or sessile clusters, or in terminal panicles. Heads with 3-20 florets; involucre campanulate, cylin- drical-campanulate to turbinate, involucral bracts imbricate in few to several series, the outer bracts smaller, obtuse, the inner bracts often caducous with the achenes; receptacle convex, naked; florets regular, narrow tubular, 5-lobed; stamens 5, sagittate, the auricles subcaudate, style slender, stigma bifid, the branches usually pubescent. Achenes 10-costate, glabrous or rarely pilose, truncate; pappus of bristles in two series, the inner series filiform, long, equal, the outer series linear, shorter, unequal or occasionally lacking.
Habit	Shrubs
Distribution	This small neotropical genus is centered in Brazil, extending northward into the West Indies and Central America. A single species is reported from Panama.