Clusia
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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
Clusiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees or erect shrubs, usually stranglers or less frequently scandent, dioecious, with abundant yellowish or cream-colored latex. Leaves opposite, usually petiolate; blades simple, thick, coriaceous. Flowers unisexual, actinomorphic, solitary or in terminal cymes. Calyx of 4-6 sepals; corolla of 4-9 free petals; stamens numerous, fertile in the staminate flowers, sterile (staminodia) in the pistillate flowers, the filaments usually united at the base; ovary superior, with 4-12 carpels, the ovules numerous, with axile placentation, the stigma peltate. Fruit a fleshy capsule, valvicidally dehiscent; seeds numerous, with a fleshy, reddish covering. A neotropical genus of about 150 species.