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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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(Last Modified On 12/18/2012)
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Genus
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BUCIDA L.
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Syst. Nat. 2:1025. 1759, nom conserv.
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Synonym
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Buceras P. Br. Hist. Jam. t. 23. 1756, nom rejic.
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Description
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Trees. Leaves spirally arranged, usually pseudo-whorled. Upper receptacle remaining attached to the fruit and calyx-lobes scarcely developed. Fruit not winged, slightly oblique. Other characters as in Terminalia.
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Habit
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Tree
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Distribution
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Two or three species from Florida, Central America, Guiana (fide Pulle) and in the West Indies.
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Note
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Grounds for separating this genus from Terminalia are slender; Bentham and Hooker and a few other authors have not maintained it. The apparently ex- cellent character of the persistent upper receptacle suffices adequately to distinguish the two genera in the New World but one or two Malayan-Polynesian species of Terminalia, quite unrelated to Bucida, show the same feature. There seems, how- ever, no grave disadvantage in maintaining the status quo.
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