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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 8/19/2013)
Genus Appunia Hook. f.
PlaceOfPublication Benth. & Hook. f., Gen. P1. 2: 120. 1873.
Note TYPE: A. tenuiflora B. & H.
Synonym Bellynkxia Muell.-Arg., Flora 48: 465. 1875. TYPE: B. angulata Muell.-Arg.
Description 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.
Habit Shrubs or small trees
Distribution Appunia is a genus of approximately 10 species in Central and South America.
Reference Hayden, M. V. & J. D. Dwyer. 1969. Seed Morphology in the Tribe Morindeae. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 96: 704-710.
 
 
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