Helicteres
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Malvaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Pubescent shrubs or trees, the pubescence stellate or of branched hairs, with broad leaves and axillary or terminal, clustered or solitary flowers, the bractlets small, or distant from the calyx. Calyx tubular, 5-cleft or 5-toothed, somewhat 2-lipped. Petals 5, clawed. Stamen-column slender, elongated, bearing 5 or 10 sessile or short-stalked anthers; anther-sacs divergent or confluent. Ovary borne within the ring of stamens, 5-celled, 5-lobed, the cells many-ovuled; style 5, or united into 1; stigma small, capitate. Carpels distinct at maturity, twisted or straight, follicular, dehiscent along the ventral suture, many-seeded. Seeds warty or smooth; endosperm little; cotyledons foliaceous. [Greek, referring to the coiled carpels of some species. Thirty species or more, of tropical distribution. Type species: Helictcres Isora L.