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Cynophalla
Family:
Capparaceae
Lee Elliott
FNA
Resources
Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Shrubs [trees or rarely vines]
, evergreen; usually glabrous, rarely puberulent (trichomes multicellular, tufted, stellate, stellulate, or unbranched).
Stems
erect.
Leaves
± distichous (stipules supra-axillary glands, serially arranged in leaf axils just distal to petioles on branchlets, increasing in size distally); petiole relatively long or short, nectaries present; blade obovate, oblong, or broadly to narrowly elliptic, margins entire.
Inflorescences
terminal or axillary, racemes.
Flowers:
sepals [equal] 2 unequal pairs (distal pair smaller), each often subtending a nectary; stamens [28-]120-150[-ca. 250]; filaments inserted on a discoid or conical receptacle (androgynophore); anthers ellipsoid; gynophore slender, elongating in fruit.
Capsules
[berries] dehiscent [indehiscent], linear-cylindric, ± fleshy.
Seeds
[1-]10-30[-many], usually reniform, arillate, (embryo green).
x
= 8, 10.
Species within inventory project:
UF CONSERVATION AREAS
Cynophalla flexuosa
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This project made possible through support from the UF Planning, Design & Construction and the UF Office of Sustainability
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