Chamissoa
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Amaranthaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Subshrubs, scandent shrubs, or lianas. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades simple; stipules absent. Flowers bisexual or functionally unisexual; clustered in cymes, which are arranged in terminal or axillary panicles. Tepals 5, ovate or lanceolate, free; stamens 5, the filaments united at the base to form a short staminal tube; interstaminal appendages absent; ovary superior, unilocular, uniovulate, the style short, with 2 or 3 stigmas. Fruit a membranaceous, circumscissile utricle; seed solitary, sometimes covered by a fleshy arillode. A genus of 2 species, widely distributed in the Neotropics, from Mexico to northern Argentina, including the Antilles.