Clusia
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Clusiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Evergreen trees or shrubs with resinous sap, often epiphytic or half climbing on other trees and sometimes strangling them, the leaves opposite, entire, the usually polygamous, large flowers solitary or eymose. Sepals 4-16, imbricated. Petals 4-9, also imbricated. Stamens many in the staminate flowers, fewer in the pistillate ones; anthers linear. Pistillate flowers with several or many staminodes; ovary 4-12-celled; stigmas sessile, radiating; ovules many in each cavity. Capsule leathery or fleshy, at length dehiscent. Seeds arillate, the embryo small, the cotyledons plano-convex. [Commemorates Charles de l'Ecluse, a French botanist of the sixteenth century.] About 80 species, of tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Clusia major L.