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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/12/2012)
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Genus
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PODANDROGYNE Ducke
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Archivos Jard. Bot. Rio Jan. 5:115. 1930.
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Synonym
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Gynandropsis DC. Prodr. 1:237. 1824, in part.
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Description
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Erect or ascending, suffrutescent or suffruticose herbs; leaves alternate, simple or palmately compound, exstipulate; inflorescence racemose or corymbose, terminal, several- to many-flowered, bracteate or ebracteate; flowers monoecious, or occas- ionally dioecious through abortion, the lower flowers pistillate, the upper staminate; calyx more or less deeply 4-parted, persistent or deciduous, sometimes more or less petaloid; petals 4, more or less unequal, usually unguiculate; disc usually manifest, symmetrical or eccentric; fertile stamens 6, inserted on a short or moderately elongate androgynophore, the filaments somewhat unequal and declinate, the anthers dorsifixed near the base, accompanied by an abortive, nearly sessile pistil- lode; fertile ovary borne upon a manifest gynophore of moderate length, the stigma capitate, shortly stipitate, the ovules numerous, the accompanying stami- nodia borne upon a manifest androgynophore, greatly reduced, sagittate; fruit a dry, terete silique, dehiscing irregularly, the replum finally separating at the tip and irregularly contorted; seeds cochleate-reniform, smooth or granulate, with a conspicuous, lamellate, funicular aril.
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