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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Genus
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MYRISTICA Boehm.
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Ludw. Def. 3: 513. 1760
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Synonym
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Comacum Adans. Fam. 2: 345. 1763, nom. rejic.
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Description
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Aromatic, glabrous, dioecious trees, the bases occasionally buttressed. Leaves alternate, subdistichous, glabrous, subcoriaceous, petiolate, exstipulate, the tertiary veins obscure. Flowers rather large for the family, the bracteate pedicels glabrous. Staminate flowers 1-20 in dichotomously branching cymes; tepals partially connate, usually 3, the anthers 12-30, usually longer than the column. Pistillate flowers commonly solitary, the tepals partly connate, the 1-carpellate ovary with a subsessile 2-lobed stigma. Fruits fleshy, the thick I! pericarp dehiscing longitudinally into 2 valves; aril usually brightly colored and laciniate; seed ellipoid to globose.
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Habit
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trees
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Distribution
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Of this austral Asian genus of around 75 species, only the commonly cultivated nutmeg, a native of the Moluccas, is found in Panama.
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