Abatia Ruiz & Pav.
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Authority
Sleumer, Hermann O. 1980. Flacourtiaceae. Fl. Neotrop. Monogr. 22: 1-499. (Published by NYBG Press)
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Family
Salicaceae
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Scientific Name
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Type
Type species. Abatia rugosa Ruiz & Pavon.
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Synonyms
Raleighia, Myriotriche, Graniera Mandon & Wedd. ex Benth. & Hook.
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Description
Description - Slender shrubs or small trees, with simple and/or stellate (fascicled) hairs. Leaves opposite or almost so, sometimes subverticillate, becoming blackish-brownish when dry, glandular-serrate, penninerved, petiolate, exstipulate. Inflorescences (sub)erect, normally terminal, sometimes also axillary shorter ones added; racemes spiciform, elongate, many-flowered, pedunculate, the flowers hermaphrodite, yellow, solitary, or in fascicles along the rhachis, subsessile or pedicellate, subtended by small more or less caducous bracts. Calyx short-tubular, lobes or sepals 4 or 5, valvate, rather glabrous inside, reddish-brownish in dry specimens. Petals 0. Stamens (4-)16-30, 1- or 2-seriate, sub-perigynous; filaments capillary, glabrous; anthers oblong-ovate, small, erect, or finally reniform-recurved, introrse, almost basifixed; connective thickened, slightly or hardly protruding beyond the anther; thecae longitudinally dehiscent. Extra-staminal appendages (or staminodes) few to numerous, filiform, crisped, glabrous, similar to the filaments and of their length, inserted on the edge of the calyx tube. Ovary 1-celled (rarely incompletely 2-celled), with (2-)3(-4) multi-ovulate placentas; style filiform; stigma truncate. Capsule (sub)globose, subcoriaceous, loculicidally dehiscent to 2 (rarely 3 or 4) valves, subtended at the base by the remnants of the calyx; seeds few to rather numerous, small, obliquely oblongoid, dorsally
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Distribution
The genus has 9 spp in tropical montane C and S America.
Central America| South America|