Tournefortia
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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
Boraginaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Vines, lianas, shrubs, or trees. Leaves alternate, petiolate; blades simple; stipules absent. Flowers actinomorphic, bisexual, in terminal scorpioid cymes. Calyx crateriform, with 5 deep lobes; corolla hypocrateriform, the tube slightly broadened at the base, the lobes reflexed; stamens 5, inserted on the corolla tube, shorter than the corolla; ovary superior, with 2 carpels, each carpel with 2 uniovulate chambers, the style simple, bilobed. Fruit a fleshy drupe, globose or 2- or 4- lobed, with 1-4 pyrenes. A genus of about 150 species of pantropical distribution.