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(Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/9/2013)
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Genus
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Allomarkgrafia Woodson
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 19: 45. 1932.
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Description
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Lianas, oppositely-branched below, becoming alternate above, lacticiferous. Leaves opposite, glandular at the base of the midrib, pinnately-nerved; petioles somewhat perfoliate, minutely glandular in the axils. Inflorescences racemose, bostrychoid, axillary and alternate. Flowers medium-sized, bracteolate; calyx 5-
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Habit
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Lianas
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Description
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lobed, the lobes subequal, bearing many squamellae within; corolla infundibuli- form, without appendages, the tube proper straight, the limb 5-lobed, dextrorsely convolute; stamens 5, included, the anthers connivent and agglutinated to the stigma, with an enlarged connective; gynoecium 2-carpellate, apocarpous, the ovary superior, the ovules numerous, the style 1, the stigma ? umbraculiform- fusiform. Fruit apocarpous, of 2 terete follicles; seeds numerous, dry, comose apically.
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Distribution
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A genus of about four species in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Peru.
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