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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/17/2013)
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Genus
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AMPELOCERA Klotzsch
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Linnaea 20:541. 1847.
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Description
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Bisexual or andromonoecious trees, unarmed. Leaves alternate, slightly inequi- lateral, remotely serrate or entire, short-petiolate; stipules lateral. Inflorescence many-flowered fasciculate, axillary, borne on this year's wood. Bisexual flowers: sepals 5, fused at the base; stamens at least twice as many as the calyx lobes; ovary sessile, the styles 2, fused at the base, spreading, persistent. Staminate flowers with rudimentary pistil. Fruit a small drupe.
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Habit
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tree
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Distribution
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Five species, only 1 Central American, the remainder Antillean or South American.
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