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(Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
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Genus
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SALACIA L.
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Mant. P1. 159. 1771.
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Description
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Lianas, scandent or sometimes erect shrubs, rarely slender trees with the upper branches scandent, glabrous throughout or essentially so, the branchlets usually terete, the bark smooth or lenticellate; milky latex sometimes present. Leaves op- posite or alternate, the petiole canaliculate, stipulate or not, the stipules small and soon deciduous. Inflorescences axillary or on defoliate branchlets, cymose, panic- ulate, racemose or fasciculate. Flowers hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual by abor- tion, often relatively large for the family, pedicellate, congested or loosely arranged; calyx usually deeply 5-lobed, the lobes unequal, frequently scarious and erosulous at the margins; petals usually 5, imbricate, sessile or sometimes subunguiculate, entire or erosulous at the margins; disc continuous, annular-pulvinate, truncate- conical or flattened, carnose; stamens usually 3, suberect to reflexed, the filaments ligulate, usually broadened toward the base, the anthers dehiscing by a transversal, apical or extrorse cleft, or by 2 longitudinal or oblique and mostly apically con- fluent clefts; pollen grains simple; ovary usually immersed in the disc, conical, cylindric or 3-lobed, (2-)3-celled, the cells 2- to many-ovulate, the ovules collateral, superposed or in superposed pairs; ovary gradually narrowed into a distinct or ob- scure style, the stigmas obscure. Fruits drupaceous, subglobose or ellipsoid, the peri- carp coriaceous, 1- to 3-celled, the dissepiments evanescent or not; seeds 1-many, embedded in mucilaginous pulp, wingless; cotyledons massive, free or united.
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Lianas shrubs
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trees
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Note
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A pantropical genus of about 200 species. A. C. Smith (Brittonia 3: 423-463. 1940) lists 29 species from the Western Hemisphere; only one imperfectly known species occurs in Panama.
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