(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Genus
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TALAUMA Juss.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Gen. P1. 281. 1789.
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Synonym
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Svenhedinia Urb. in Fedde, Rep. Sp. Nov. 24: 3. 1927.
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Description
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Evergreen trees or shrubs. Stipules adnate to the petiole. Flowers terminal, hermaphrodite, at first enclosed in 1 or more (usually several) spathaceous bracts. Gynoecium sessile; carpels numerous or few, concrescent at least towards the base; ovules 2. Fruiting carpels woody, circumscissile, the upper portions falling away either separately or in irregular masses, the lower portions persistent and bearing the suspended seeds.
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Habit
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trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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Species about 45, mostly in tropical and subtropical southeast Asia, the others in tropical America in the Lesser Antilles, Cuba, southern Mexico and through Central America to Brazil.
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Note
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The genus is essentially tropical and lacks the strong North Temperate element present in Magnolia.
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Key
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a. Leaves rounded to obtuse at the apex, rather laxly reticulate -... 1. T. GLORIENSIS aa. Leaves bluntly acuminate to subacute or apiculate at the apex, closely reticulate 2. T. SAMBUENSIS
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