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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/18/2013)
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Genus
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Schradera Vahl.
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Eclog. Amer. 1: 35. 1796.
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Note
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Nomen conserv. TYPE: S. capitata Vahl, nom. illeg. = S. involucrata (Swartz) K. Schumann.
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Synonym
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Fuchsia Swartz, Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 62. 1788, not Fuchsia L. 1753. Urceolaria Willd. in Cothen. Disp. Veg. Meth. 10, 1790. Nomen rejic. TYPE: U. exotica. Uncariopsis Karst., Linnaea 30: 152. 1859. TYPE: U. suaveolens Karst.
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Description
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Epiphytic shrubs. Leaves usually leathery. Inflorescences terminal, pedun- culate, the flowers capitate, surrounded by a broad involucre. Flowers with the calyx turbinate, the calycine cup cupuliform, truncate; corolla salverform, the tube broad, villous within, the lobes 5-10, narrow, spreading or reflexed, valvate; stamens 5-10, the anthers subsessile, dorsifixed, included or exserted, the fila- ments adnate to the corolla tube; ovary 2-4-celled. Fruits a syncarp, fleshy, baccate; seeds numerous, small, compressed, suborbicular, horizontally at- tached.
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Distribution
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occurs in Panama, tropical South America, and in the West Indies.
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Note
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It is a genus of about 16 species.
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Reference
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Steyermark, J. 1963. Schradera. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 10: 259-278.
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