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(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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MALMEA R. E. Fries
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Arkiv Bot. 54: 3. 1905
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Reference
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Acta Hort. Berg. 10: 37. 1939.
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Description
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Trees and shrubs. Flowers medium-sized or large, in few- to several-flowered inflorescences opposite the leaves, or rarely pseudo-axillary; pedicels articulated immediately above a nearly basal bract and bearing another bract above the artic- ulation. Sepals small, with thin margins, imbricate in bud. Petals much longer than the sepals, more or less blackening when dried, orbicular-elliptic, imbricate in bud, their margins thin and more or less crispate. Stamens very numerous, the connective expanded above the anther into a truncate disk; pollen sacs not locellate. Carpels numerous, containing 1 basal, erect ovule. Monocarps free, stipitate, 1-seeded.
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Habit
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Trees and shrubs
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Distribution
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Twelve species are known of this genus, 8 inhabiting Ecuador, the Ama- zonian region and Guiana; 1 is native to Bahia, and 3 are found in Central America (Mexico to Panama). Only 1 species is recorded from Panama.
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