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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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CRATAEVA L.
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Sp. P1. 444. 1753.
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Synonym
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Tapia Adans. Fam. 2:407. 1763.
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Reference
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Dalla Torre & Harms, Gen. Siph. 192. 1901.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees, usually glabrous; leaves alternate, palmately 3-foliolate, exstipulate; inflorescence terminal, several-flowered, corymbosely racemose; flow- ers hermaphrodite or unisexual through abortion; calyx deeply 4-parted, imbricate, deciduous; petals 4, open in the bud, long-ungulate; disc radially symmetrical, thick and conspicuous, adnate to the calyx tube; stamens 8-50, the filaments in- serted on a short androphore; ovary borne upon an elongate gynophore, ovoid or spherical, the stigma sessile, the ovules numerous, borne upon 2 parietal placentas; fruit an indehiscent, ovoid or spherical berry, borne upon an elongate, thickened gynophore.
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