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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/24/2012)
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CYCLANTHACEAE
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Description
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Perennial shrubs or suffrutescent herbs of Palm-like habit, acaulescent or with more or less extensive, frequently clambering stems, terrestrial or epiphytic. Leaves spiral or distichous, 2-cleft-or flabellate, rarely entire. Inflorescence a spadix of small monoecious flowers, subtended by 2 to several conspicuous foliaceous or petalaceous spathes. Staminate and pistillate flowers alternating spirally or ar- ranged in alternate cycles. Staminate flowers: perianth 0 or cupulate and several- toothed; stamens numerous, anthers 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscent. Pistillate flowers: 2- to 4-carpellate, separate or mutually concrescent; perianth 0 or of 4 perigonial lobes; staminodes 4-6, filamentous and usually very long and fila- mentous; ovary superior to inferior, 1-locular, bearing numerous anatropous ovules upon 2-4 parietal placentae, stigmas 1-4. Fruit a fleshy syncarp of distinct or -united berries, frequently shed from the spadix in concrescent sheets of fleshy pulp.
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shrubs herbs
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a. Staminate and pistillate flowers alternating spirally, the' staminate in clusters of 4, the pistillate solitary;..plants not laticiferous --- 1. CARLUDOVICA aa. Staminate and pistillate -flowers arranged in separate, alternating cycles, the pis'tillate of each cycle strongly concrescent; plants laticiferous -. 2. CYCLANTHUS
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