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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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Genus
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PRIORIA Griseb.
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Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 215. 1860.
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Description
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Large unarmed tree, with glabrate to lightly pubescent branchlets. Leaves simply pinnate, bijugate except occasionally monojugate, short-petiolate; leaflets pellucid-punctate, coriaceous to submembranaceous, arcuate-oblique and thus some- what asymmetrical, reticulate, glabrous; petiole and rachis lenticellate; petiolules short, callous-rugose. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of multitudinous spicate flowers. Flowers small, apetalous, apparently with petals (calyx-lobes) if sub- tending bracts are regarded as part of the perianth; calyx bibracteate (bracts some- times lobed and simulating a calyx), essentially polysepalous but basally more or
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tree
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ess disciferous, the sepals 5, orbicular, imbricated in bud; stamens 10, free, sub- equal; ovary subsessile, 1- to 2-ovulate. Legume flattened verrucose, ligneous, tardily 2-valved, monoseminate.
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