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(Last Modified On 9/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 9/10/2013)
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Genus
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Joosia Karst.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Fl. Colomb. 1: 9. Tab. 5. 1858.
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TYPE: Colombia, J. umbellifera Karst.
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Description
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Trees or shrubs. Leaves usually elliptic or oblong, acute to long acuminate at the apex, tapering basally; petioles short; stipules deciduous except usually per- sistent at the tips of the twigs, elongate, free. Inflorescences terminal, cymose umbellate, the flowers secundly disposed. Flowers with the hypanthium short, the calycine cup and teeth short; corolla white, the lobes valvate, ovate, bifid at the apex, the margins conspicuously scalloped; stamens with anthers often ses- sile, attached below the middle of tube; ovary 2-celled, the ovules numerous, the placenta adnate to the middle of the septum. Fruits capsular, linear or narrowly oblong, splitting into 4 spirally coiled valves; seeds imbricate, membranous, winged, the wing usually bifid at the base, entire or dentate at the apex.
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Habit
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Trees or shrubs
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Distribution
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a genus of 4 species, is known from Panama, Colombia, and Peru.
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