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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
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Genus
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Antirhea Commerson A. L. Juss.
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Gen. P1. 204. 1789 ('Antirhea').
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Note
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TYPE: A. borbonica J. F. Gmelin.
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Synonym
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Antirhoea Endlicher, Ench. 272, 692. 15-21 Aug. 1841 orth. mut. Stenostomum Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. P1. 3: 69. 1806. TYPE: S. lucidum (Swartz) C. F. Gaertn. Sturmia Gaertn. Fruct. Sem. P1. pl. 192. 1805, not Sturmia Hoppe (1799), not Sturmia Reichb. (1828). TYPE: S. lucida Gaertn.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves often coriaceous, the stipules deciduous or persistent. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, the peduncle when present with branches spreading, the flowers secundly disposed, the bracteoles present or absent. Flow- ers with the hypanthium ovoid or obovoid, the calyx lobes persistent; corolla funnelform, the 4-5 lobes imbricate, 2 of them exterior; stamens 4-5, included or scarcely exserted, the anthers slender, dorsifixed, often pubescent; style slen- der, the stigma knoblike or 2-3-lobed, included, the ovary 2-10-celled, the ovules solitary, pendulous. Fruits drupaceous, thin carnose, the shell ligneous or bony, the seeds elongate, pendulous.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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Antirhea, with about 40 species, occurs in the West Indies, Panama, Mad- agascar, in tropical East Asia to Australia.
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