(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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Appunia Hook. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. P1. 2: 120. 1873.
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Note
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TYPE: A. tenuiflora B. & H.
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Synonym
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Bellynkxia Muell.-Arg., Flora 48: 465. 1875. TYPE: B. angulata Muell.-Arg.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves usually lanceolate, opposite; stipules free, sub- ulate acuminate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, the flowers few, congested into a small head at the end of the peduncle. Flowers with the hypanthium some- what coherent, the calycine cup truncate, the teeth absent or scarcely visible, funnelform or U-shaped, the lobes usually 5, valvate; ovary 4-celled, with an ascending, solitary ovule in each cell. Fruits sessile, aggregate, but virtually free at maturity, each fruitlet fleshy, drupaceous, with 4 pyrenes, each pyrene un- equally 2-locellate, the ventral part empty; seeds exalbuminous.
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Habit
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Shrubs or small trees
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Distribution
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Appunia is a genus of approximately 10 species in Central and South America.
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Reference
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Hayden, M. V. & J. D. Dwyer. 1969. Seed Morphology in the Tribe Morindeae. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 96: 704-710.
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