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(Last Modified On 1/28/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/28/2013)
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Genus
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TRICHOSTIGMA A. Rich.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sagra, Hist. CuLba 10:306. 1845.
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Synonym
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Villamilla R. & B. ex Benth. & Hook. Gen. P1. 3:81. 1880.
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Description
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Woody vines, shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, petiolate; stipules minute and deciduous. Inflorescence a many-flowered terminal or extra-axillary raceme, the bracts deciduous. Tepals 4, subequal, persistent and reflexed in fruit. Stamens 8-10 (-12), inserted on a hypogynous disc, the filaments free, the anther dorsi- fixed. Ovary 1-carpellate, unilocular, subglobose, the stigma sessile or subsessile, often penicillate, the ovule 1. Fruit a globose drupe, the pericarp adherent to the seed. Seed 1, the testa crustaceous.
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Habit
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vines shrubs
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Distribution
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Three species in tropical America.
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Key
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a. Flowers in crowded condensed racemes; stamens 8-12; pedicels 7-9 mm. long. . . .-------.----- 1. T. OCTANDRUM aa. Flowers in elongate lax rac-emes; stamens 20-25; pedicels 8-16 mm. long ---------------------------------- 2. T. POLYANDRUM
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