Cissampelos
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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
Menispermaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Genus Description - Dioecious, herbaceous, twining vines, usually with simple hairs. Leaves rounded to ovate, peltate or cordate at base, palmately veined, long-petiolate. Rowers minute, unisexual, pedicellate, in axillary inflorescences. Staminate flowers in corymbs; calyx of 4 free sepals; corolla cup-shaped; stamens 4, connate into a short tube, with sessile anthers. Pistillate flowers zygomorphic, in elongate cymes with foliaceous bracts; calyx and corolla of a single sepal and a single petal, both toward same side; ovary sessile, unilocular, with a single basal ovule, the stigma lobed. Drupe globose, fleshy, with a verrucose stone; seeds horseshoe-shaped.
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Distribution
A genus of 19 species, with tropical distribution.
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|