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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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Genus
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HENRIETTELLA Naud.
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Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. III. 18:107. 1852.
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Description
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Flowers 4- to 5-merous. Hypanthium small, globose to cup-shaped. Sepals small, triangular or ovate to depressed or obsolete; exterior teeth usually present, conic or subulate, small. Petals ovate to lanceolate or triangular, usually acute or subacute, commonly cucullate at the summit and often exceeded by a minute exterior tooth. Stamens isomorphic; filaments slender, glabrous; anthers oblong, usually obtuse, opening by a large terminal pore; connective simply or briefly prolonged below the thecae, rarely with minute basal lobes. Ovary inferior, 4- to 5-celled; style slender; stigma truncate to capitate. Fruit a many-seeded berry. Shrubs or trees with small cluster of flowers at the leafless nodes or rarely in the axils of the leaves.
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Distribution
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About 40 described species, chiefly in the West Indies and northern South America.
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a. Leaves long-tapering at base, strongly pli-nerved ............... 1. H. TUBERCULOSA. aa. Leaves rounded or obtuse at base, 3-nerved or obscurely pli-nerved. b. Pedicels about 1 mm. long; hypanthium densely pubescent. - . 2. H. SEEMANNII. bb. Pedicels 4-8 mm. long; hypanthium essentially glabrous. - 3. H. FLAVESCENS.
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