Menispermaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Menispermaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Vines, shrubs or trees, with alternate leaves, no stipules, and small dioecious panicled racemose or eymose flowrers. Sepals 4-12, or fewer. Petals 6, imbricated in 2 rows, sometimes fewer, or none. Stamens about the same number as the petals or fewer. Carpels 3-x (generally 6), 1- ovuled, separate; styles commonly recurved. Fruit drupaceous. Embryo long, curved. About 55 genera and 150 species, mainly of tropical distribution, a few extending into the temperate zones.