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(Last Modified On 8/20/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/20/2013)
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Genus
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Calycophyllum DC.
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Prodr. 4: 367. 1830.
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Note
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LECTOTYPE: C. candidissimum (Vahl) DC. (Macrocnemum candidissimum Vahl).
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Synonym
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Enkylista Benth. Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 5: 230. 1850. TYPE: E. spruceana Benth.
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Description
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Trees. Leaves petiolate, the stipules small, deciduous. Inflorescences pa- niculate, terminal, corymbose, ebracteolate or bibracteolate. Flowers in bud en- closed by membranous bracts, sessile or subsessile, the hypanthium oblong, the calycine cup truncate, sometimes partly expanded into a large foliaceous stalked blade, the corolla with the tube short, funnelform, the mouth villous, the lobes 6-8, imbricate or contorted, 1 lobe exterior, the stamens exserted, the anthers versatile, the filaments subulate, the style slender, the stigmas 2, narrowly oblong, the ovules disposed in 2 cells, numerous, imbricate, the placentas adnate to the septum. Fruits capsular, oblong cylindrical, 2-celled, septicidally bivalvate, the valves coriaceous; seeds numerous, imbricate, usually minute, the testa mem- branous, produced at each end as an elongate wing.
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Habit
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Trees
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Distribution
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Calycophyllum has approximately 6 species in the West Indies and 1 in Central America and South America.
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