Argythamnia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Low shrubs containing purple pigment. Leaves simple, entire or dentate, stipulate. Inflorescence in few-flowered, axillary subsessile racemes; flowers short-pedicellate, the 1-3 inferior pistillate. Flowers monoecious. Calyx 4-5- parted, valvate. Petals of staminate flowers 4 or 5; stamens 4 or 5 cohering at the very base and surrounding a central rudiment, anthers subglobose, introrse; discal glands 4 or 5. Styles cut into 3-8 branches. Capsule 3-coccous. [Greek, silvery bush.] Some 35 species, all American. Type species: Argythamnia candlcans Sw.