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(Last Modified On 4/5/2013)
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(Last Modified On 4/5/2013)
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Genus
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Ruyschia Jacq.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. Syst. P1. Carib. 2. 1760.
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Description
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Shrubs, often epiphytic, or vines. Leaves coriaceous, often rigid. Inflorescences terminal multiflorous racemes; nectaries- small, to 5 mm long, mostly solid and gibbose to subglobose, mostly inserted at the base of the flowers. Flowers often fragrant, short-pedicellate; bracteoles sepaloid, appressed to the calyx, persistent; sepals 5, slightly unequal, persistent; petals free or shortly united basally, re- flexed at anthesis; stamens 5 or 3, the filaments flattened, ? adnate to the bases of the petals, the anthers ovate to globose; ovary 2-loculed, ovules to ca. 20 per
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Habit
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Shrubs
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Description
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+ woody, apiculate, probably dehiscent; seeds few, shining, reticulate.
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Distribution
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A genus of seven species in Central America, the Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru; three species have been reported from Central America, of which only one is known from Panama.
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