Aristolochia L.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Aristolochiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Herbaceous or woody twining vines or less often herbs or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire or trilobate, long-petioled, often with prominent pseudostipules. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic or rarely actinomorphic, solitary in leaf axils or clustered on old stems; calyx corolla-like, inflated, constricted into a tube below apex, expanding above into 1 or 2 lobes; corolla wanting; stamens 5-6, sessile; ovary inferior or partially superior, 5-6-carpellate, each carpel with numerous ovules, with axile placentation, the styles 6, connate, the stigmas capitate. Fruit a capsule, usually opening along valves; seeds numerous, light and compressed.
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Distribution
A genus with approximately 450—550 species, chiefly with tropical or subtropical distribution
Saint John Virgin Islands of the United States South America|