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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/10/2013)
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Genus
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BELLUCIA Neck.
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Elem. Bot. 2:142. 1790.
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Description
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Flowers 5- to 8-merous. Hypanthium thick-walled, hemispheric. Calyx large, at anthesis divided into 2-8 regular or irregular lobes. Petals large, leathery, oblong or obovate. Stamens isomorphic; filaments short and stout; anthers more or less coherent in a ring, laterally compressed, broadly oblong, elliptic, or dolabri- form, opening by two terminal pores; connective neither prolonged nor appendaged. Ovary inferior, 5- to 15-celled; style stout; stigma large, capitate. Fruit a large many-seeded berry. Trees or tall shrubs, with large ovate or oblong leaves and large white or pink flowers on short pedicels solitary or few in the leaf-axils.
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Distribution
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About 10 species of low altitudes, most numerous in northern South America.
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Note
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B. grossularioides (L). Triana is widely distributed and has been reported from Panama: its calyx exhibits two to five lobes of irregular shape and size at anthesis.
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