Syngonium
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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
Araceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Genus Description - Epiphytes or hemiepiphytes, usually with long root-climbing stems, producing milky sap. Leaves simple or variously divided, with 5-11 leaflets; petioles sheathed toward the base. Inflorescences 1-11 per axil; peduncles erect in flower, pendent in fruit; spathe fleshy, convolute, conspicuously constricted medially, the tube ellipsoid, the blade whitish to greenish, broadly spreading at anthesis; spadix much shorter than the spathe, erect, with pistillate flowers on basal portion. Flowers unisexual, the perianth wanting; stamens 3-4, united into a synandrium; ovary (l-)2(-3)-locular, with l(-2) ovules per locule, the stigma discoid or bilabiate. Fruit a 1-seeded berry, connate into an ovoid syncarp; seeds obovoid or ovoid.
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Distribution
A genus of 33 species native to the neotropics, with most species in Costa Rica and Panama.
Panama Central America| Puntarenas Costa Rica Central America|