(Last Modified On 3/6/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/6/2013)
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Genus
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MUELLERA L. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Suppl. P1. Syst. Veg. 53. 1781, nom, gen. conserv.
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Synonym
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Coublandia Aubl., Hist. PI. Gui. Fr. 937. 1775.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves with several leaflets pinnately disposed; bracts and bracteoles minute, deciduous. Flowers with the hypanthium. campanulate to cyathi- form, truncate, the 5 teeth short; vexillum suborbicular, lacking auricles or callosi- ties; wing petals curved, oblong, adhering to the keel petals, the latter oblong; stamens monadelphous, the odd filament free at the base, the anthers versatile; ovary shortly stipitate, without a glandular disk, the style curved, glabrous, the stigma minute. Fruits somewhat terete, thick, leathery, indehiscent, sometimes glo- bose or moniliform; seeds numerous, numerous, occasionally solitary, ovoid to sub- globose, the hilum lateral, somewhat incurved.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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A genus of about three species; apparently rare in Central America, occasional in the West Indies, and apparently well represented in northern South America; only one species is known from Panama.
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