Tragia
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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
Euphorbiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - Twining vines or less frequently erect herbs, monoecious, covered with stinging hairs, producing scarce watery latex when wounded. Leaves alternate, entire or 3-lobate, petiolate, the margins serrate or entire; stipules minute, deciduous. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic, apetalous, in bisexual racemes, axillary or terminal. Staminate flowers short-pedicellate, numerous. Calyx 3-4-valvate; stamens (2-)3-5, the filaments connate at the base; pistillode minute. Pistillate flowers long-pedicellate. Calyx of 3 or 6 sepals; ovary tricarpellate, each carpel with a solitary ovule, the style simple, with 3 stigmatic branches. Fruit a trilobate capsule with explosive dehiscence, with one seed per locule. A genus of about 150 species, of tropical, subtropical, and subtemperate distribution.