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Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Trees, shrubs or herbs, sometimes with fleshy root tubers; stems and branches with prominent leaf scars; latex white, indumentum absent. Stipules small usually caducous. Leaves alternate, lamina usually palmately lobed, or dissected; apex glandular or stipellate; pedicel long. Inflorescence terminal or pseudo-axillary, mostly racemose-paniculate. Petals absent; sepals 5, imbricate, petaloid, disc intra-staminal, usually 10-lobed. Fruit a capsule, 3-valved; columella often persistent. Seeds carunculate; testa dry, crustaceous; endosperm fleshy; cotyledon broad and flat. Derivation of name: native Brazilian name Worldwide: 60 species in tropical America, mostly Brazil. DRC: 1 taxon. |
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