Jacquemontia Choisy
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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
Convolvulaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Twining or creeping vines, herbs, or decumbent shrubs, apparently without milky latex. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades simple, entire or lobed, usually punctate; stipules absent. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic. in compound or less frequently simple dichasial cymes, axillary; peduncles usually elongate. Calyx of 5 free sepals, not accrescent, equal or unequal; corolla campanulate, infundibuliform, rotate, or hypocrateriform, the limb entire to deeply 5-lobed; stamens 5, inserted or exserted, the filaments usually unequal, the anthers lanceolate; ovary superior, 2-locular, the style solitary with two elongate stigmas, oblong to ellipsoid, slightly compressed. Fruits capsular. 4-valvate, but each valve opening in two; seeds 4 per fruit, triangular, glabrous or pubescent. A predominantly neotropical genus of about 100 species.