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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 3/7/2013)
Genus HYLENAEA Miers
PlaceOfPublication Trans. Linn. Soc. London 28: 366. 1872.
Description Lianas or slender trees with scandent branches, glabrous throughout. Leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate, the petioles shallowly canaliculate. Inflorescences axillary, pedunculate, much branched, paniculate-corymbose or pseudocymose, the branchlets slender or not. Flowers hermaphrodite, minute, pedicellate; sepals 5, usually longer than broad or as long as broad, acute or subacute, membranous; petals 5, imbricate, faintly erosulous at the margins, membranous; disc continuous, erect, short-cylindric, membranous to thin-carnose; stamens 3, suberect or reflexed, the filaments ligulate, gradually broadened toward the base, the anthers extrorsely nutant, subglobose or transversely oblong, dehiscing by apical, transversal, confluent clefts; ovary depressed-3-lobed, 3-celled, each cell 4- or 6-ovulate the ovules 2- seriate, ascending from the inner basal angle; style carnose, the stigmas obscure. Fruits of 3 capsular mericarps, these divergent, separately attached to a greatly swol- len receptacle, conspicuously convex on both surfaces, rounded and blunt at the margins, dehiscing along an obscure median suture, the pericarp woody; seeds 4-6 per mericarp, affixed by a comparatively small, basal wing.
Habit Lianas trees
Distribution A neotropical genus of two species, one native to Panama.
 
 
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