Tragia
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Genus Description - Perennial monoecious, erect or climbing (usually twining) herbs, covered with stinging hairs; latex clear. Leaves simple or trilobed, alternate, serrate, or entire; petioles short; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers in terminal or axillary, bisexual racemes; corolla and nectary disk lacking. Staminate flowers on short pedicels, numerous, usually 1 per raceme node; calyx of 3 or 4 valvate sepals; stamens (2-)3-5, the filaments connate at base or frequently half of their length; pistillode small. Pistillate flowers long-pediceled; calyx of 2 whorls of 3 imbricate sepals; ovary of 3 uniovulate carpels, the styles connate, with simple branches, the stigma papillate. Fruit usually a 3-lobed thin-walled capsule with explosive dehiscence; seeds 1 per locule, nearly spherical, smooth or slightly rough.