Bombacaceae - Do not use, see Malvaceae
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Authority
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
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Family
Bombacaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Trees, mostly with palmately compound leaves and large and showy perfect flowers. Calyx inferior, mostly 5-toothed. Petals 5. Stamens commonly very numerous, with long filaments and short anthers. Ovary 2-5-celled; style simple; stigmas as many as the ovary-cavities. Fruit various, dry or fleshy. Seeds usually woolly. About 20 genera and 150 species, of tropical distribution.