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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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Genus
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Wittmackanthus Kuntze
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PlaceOfPublication
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Rev. Gen. P1. 1: 302. 1891.
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Note
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TYPE: W. stanleyanus (Schomb.) Kuntze.
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Synonym
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Pallasia Klotzsch, Monatsber. Kdnigl. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 498. 1853; not Pallasia Hout. 11: 832. 1775, Cucurbitaceae; not Pallasia Scop. Introd. 72. 1777, Gramineae; not Pallasia L.f., Suppl. 37. 1781, Polygonaceae; not Pallasia L'Her. ex Ait., Hort. Kew III: 498. 1789, Compositae.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, petiolate; stipules free, small, inter- petiolar. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, spicate. Flowers 4-6-merous; hy- panthium short; calycine cup short, the lobes 4-6, variable in length; corolla tubular, variable in length, the lobes imbricate; stamens 5, unequal, the anthers versatile, attached near the mouth; ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, verti- cally imbricate, alate, the placentas carnose. Fruits capsular, septicidally dehis- cent, the calyx persistent, the seeds winged.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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known from Panama and northern South America south to Peru.
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Note
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The genus is monotypic.
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Reference
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Steyermark, J. A. & J. Kirkbride, Jr. 1975. The genus Wittmackanthus (Rubi- aceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 62: 504-509.
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