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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/22/2013)
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Genus
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DORSTENIA L.
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Spec. Pl. 121. 1753.
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Synonym
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Kosaria Forsk. Fl. Egypt.-Arab. 164. 1775. Sychinium Desv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 4:216. 1826.
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Description
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Succulent or subsucculent herbs. Leaves spiral, entire or variously lobed; stipules lateral. Flowers minute, monoecious, interspersed and immersed in a common discoid or radiate head, the obsolete perianths more or less concrescent with the receptacle. Staminate flowers with 1-3 minute stamens, the filaments inflexed before anthesis. Pistillate flowers with the ovary included and the excentric stigma shortly 2-lobed. Receptacles accrescent and fleshy in fruit, at length extruding the minute achenes.
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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Perhaps 75 or more very diverse species of the tropics of both hemispheres. In Panama only one species is presently known.
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