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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/4/2013)
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Genus
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Deppea Schlecht. & Cham.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Linnaea 5: 167. 1830.
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Note
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TYPE: D. erythrorhiza Cham. & Schlecht.
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Synonym
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Choristes Benth., PI. Hartw. 63. 1840. TYPE: C. obtusifolia Benth.
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Description
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Shrubs. Leaves membranous, petiolate; stipules minute. Inflorescences ter- minal or axillary, the flowers rarely solitary, disposed in cymes or umbels, ebrac- teolate. Flowers pedicellate; calyx 4-lobed, the lobes persistent; corolla rotate, the tube often shorter than the lobes, glabrous within, the lobes 4, contorted; stamens 4, exserted, the filaments short, attached near the corolla mouth; style slender, the stigmas capitate or the 2 lobes evident, the ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, imbricate, the placentas peltately adnate to the septum. Fruits cap- sular, small, turbinate or obovoid, scarious to coriaceous, costate, loculicidally dehiscent from the apex; seeds numerous, subglobose, minute, obtusely angular, the testa hard, granulate.
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Habit
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Shrubs
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Distribution
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ranges from Mexico to Venezuela.
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Note
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The genus includes about 20 species.
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Key
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a. Flowers with hypanthium sparsely villose; fruits turbinate, 0.4-0.5 cm long, 8-costate; high mountain species, 1500-4500 m ...... 1. D. grandifolia aa. Flowers with hypanthium glabrous; fruits rotund, to 0.2 cm long, 12-costate; low elevation species ...... 2. D. panamensis
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