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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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Genus
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DAPHNOPSIS Mart. & ZuCc.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1:65. 1824.
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Synonym
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Hargasseria Schiede & Deppe, ex C. A. Meyer, in Bull. Acad. St. Petersbourg 1:356.. 1843. Nordmannia Fisch. & C. A. Meyer, loc. cit. 355. 1843. Coleophora Miers, in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. 8:197. 1851.
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Description
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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate, membranaceous to coriaceous. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, cymose or paniculate, the ultimate branches usually umbelliform or capituliform. Flowers apetalous, -dioecious, tetramerous; perianth salverform to campanulate, more or less petalaceous, usually densely puberulent, the limb deeply 4-lobed. Staminate flowers: stamens 8, sessile or subsessile, the outer -cycle antesepalous, inserted at the base of the perianth lobes, barely exserted, the inner cycle antepetalous, inserted within the perianth tube; pistillode present, surrounded at the base by a delicate entire or lobed disc. Pistil- late flowers usually smaller than the staminate: staminodes 8, 4, or absent; pistil 1-carpellate, containing a single pendulous anatropous ovule; stigma capitate, sessile or subsessile, usually slightly exserted; disc entire or lobed, hypogynous, usually delicately membranaceous. Fruit a small slightly fleshy drupe.
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Habit
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Shrubs trees
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Note
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About 2 5 species in southern Mexico, Central and South America, and the Antilles. A single species in Panama.
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