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(Last Modified On 10/29/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/29/2012)
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Genus
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MYROSMA L. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Suppl. 8, 80. 1781.
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Synonym
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Saranthe Eichl. in Abh. Akad. Berlin 1883:85. 1883, in part. Ctenanthe Eichl. loc. cit. 83. 1883, in part.
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Description
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Rhizomatous, perennial, subacaulescent herbs; leaves mostly basal, the flower- ing stem bearing relatively few, 2-ranked; inflorescence racemose, subspiciform, simple or infrequently branched, solitary or clustered; bracts persistent, usually relatively distant and not closely imbricated at anthesis, membranaceous or chartaccous, foliaceous or yellow, subtending clusters of rather small and in- conspicuous bracteolate flowers; flowers perfect, very asymmetric, epigynous; sepals 3, more or less connate at the base, persistent, the lobes essentially equal; corolla lobes 3, unequal, shortly connate at the base; fertile stamen 1, petaloid, united at the base with 4 more or less petaloid staminodia, the outer 2 exceeding the corolla lobes; ovary inferior, 1-celled; fruit a loculicidally dehiscent 1-seeded capsule.
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a. Bracts green; flowers distinctly pedicellate, conspicuously exserted from the bracts - 1. M. PANAMENSIS aa. Bracts deep yellow; flowers sessile or subsessile, included within the bracts - 2. M. DASYCARPA
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