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(Last Modified On 3/14/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/14/2013)
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Genus
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Cochlospermum Kunth
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PlaceOfPublication
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Kunth in H.B.K., Nov. Gen. Sp. P1. 5: 297, 1822, nom. gen. conserv.
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Synonym
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Maximilianea Mart. in Schrank, Flora 2: 452, 1819.
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Description
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Suffrutices, shrubs or small trees, deciduous, sometimes with tuberous roots. Leaves petiolate, palmatilobed or compound-digitate, glabrous or not. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, racemose or paniculate. Flowers 5-merous, the sepals un- equal; petals convolute, large, membranous, mostly yellow; filaments slender, equal or not, the anthers basifixed, oblong or linear, apically poricidal; ovary 1-lo- cular except at the base, with 3-5 parietal placentae; style slender, the stigma scarcely thickened, usually inconspicously denticulate. Capsules 1-locular, the exocarp glabrous or not, the endocarp membranous; seeds reniform, long-lanate, the testa thin and easily detachable.
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Habit
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Suffrutices shrubs
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trees
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Distribution
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A pantropical genus of about 15 species, the majority in South America; only one species in Panama as well as in North America.
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