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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 11/20/2012)
Genus OTTONIA Sprengel
PlaceOfPublication Neue Entdeck. 1:255. 1820.
Synonym Arctottonia Trel. in Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 69:315. 1930.
Description Shrubs; leaves alternate; inflorescence racemose, leaf-opposed as in Piper; flowers pedicellate, scarcely crowded; stamens 4-6; ovary more or less 3-angled; stigmas 3; fruit a small, somewhat flask-shaped drupe.
Note There is some question as to whether the Pipers with racemose rather than spicate inflorescences constitute a genus distinct from Piper. So far as known at the present time, the North American species with racemose inflorescences all have palmate nervation and with stamens more or less adhering to the ovary, in con- trast to the South American species characterized with pinnately nerved leaves. It is not believed that the differences upon which Trelease based the genus Arctottonia are of generic status.
 
 
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