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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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(Last Modified On 2/7/2013)
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Genus
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HYPERBAENA Miers.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2. 7: 44. 1851.
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Synonym
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Pachygone Eichl. in Denkschrift. Bot. Gesellsch. Regensb. 5:1. 1864.
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Description
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Woody twiners or sometimes erect shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate. Staminate inflorescence axillary, fasciculate, spiciform or racemiform. Staminate flowers 3-merous, actinomorphic: Sepals 6, the exterior bracteoliform, the interior conspicuously larger, imbricate; petals 6, antesepalous; stamens 6, ante- petalous, free or the filaments connate at the base, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil- late inflorescence axillary, solitary, racemose. Pistillate flowers: Sepals and petals similar to the staminate; staminodia 6; carpels 3, free, gibbose; style reflexed. Drupes sessile, curved; exalbuminous.
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Habit
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shrubs trees
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Distribution
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About 40 species. Mexico, Central America, South America and the Antilles.
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Key
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a. Woody twiners; leaves palmately 5-nerved; inner sepals 2.5-4.0 mm. long, densely pubescent; petals pubescent; stamens cucullate, pubescent . 1. H. PANAMENSIS aa. Small trees; leaves pinnately nerved; inner sepals 1.1-1.4 mm. long, glabrous or essentially so; petals glabrous; stamens erect, glabrous - 2. H. ALLENII
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