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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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Genus
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CONOCARPUS L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 1:176. 1753
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Reference
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Gen. P1. 81. 1754.
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Synonym
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Rudbeckia Houst. ex L. loc. cit. 1754, in syn. non L. ( 175 3 ). Rudbeckia Adans. Fam. 2:80, 599. 1763, nom. illegit. non L.
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Description
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Small trees or shrubs, erect or prostrate. Leaves alternate. Flowers sessile, 5- merous, perfect and staminate in the same inflorescences, densely aggregate into pseudo-capitula. Petals absent. Stamens usually 10, sometimes fewer by abortion, anthers dorsifixed, versatile. Disk intrastaminal. Ovules 2, pendulous. Fruits (pseudocarps) laterally compressed, 2-winged, densely aggregated in a cone-like mass.
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Habit
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trees shrubs
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Note
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A genus consisting of two littoral species, often constituents of mangrove swamps, one in tropical and subtropical America and Africa, the other in Somali- land and Arabia.
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