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(Last Modified On 7/2/2013)
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(Last Modified On 7/2/2013)
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Genus
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Mappia Jacq.
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Hort. Schoenb. 1: 22, tab. 47. 1797, nom. cons.
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TYPE: M. racemosa Jacq.
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Description
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Trees and shrubs. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire with slightly revolute margins, commonly with domatia in the axils of veins on the abaxial surface. In- florescences axillary, cymose or corymbose. Flowers perfect, 5-parted; calyx patel- liform, minutely toothed; petals valvate, strigose or glabrate outside, villose inside, the apex inflexed, short, glabrous; stamens free, the filaments filiform, flat- tened, glabrous; basal disc fleshy, hirsute to glabrous on the margin and inside, glabrous outside; pistil symmetrical, the ovary hirsute to glabrous, 1-celled, the ovules 2, pendant from the apex of the locule. Fruits drupaceous, the putamen thin, smooth; seed 1, the embryo large, the endosperm abundant.
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Habit
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Trees and shrubs
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Distribution
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Mappia is a genus of 5 species in the Greater Antilles, Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala.
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Reference
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Howard, R. A. 1942. Studies of the Icacinaceae II. Humirianthera, Leretia, Mappia and Nothapodytes, valid genera of the Icacineae. J. Arnold Arbor. 23: 55-78.
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