Phytolaccaceae
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Paul Rothrock
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JANAS 33(1)
PLANT: Trees, shrubs, or herbs. LEAVES: alternate, simple, the margins entire; stipules wanting or vestigial. INFLORESCENCE: in ours racemes. FLOWERS: mostly perfect, actinomorphic; sepals usually 4 or 5, distinct or fused below; petals absent; stamens 4-many, often in 2 alternating cycles and twice as many as the sepals; pistil superior, 1-many carpellate, the carpels distinct or united, unilocular, the placentae basal; styles and stigmas as many as the carpels. FRUITS: berries or druplets in ours. NOTES: Ca. 18 genera, ca. 125 spp.; cosmopolitan but mainly tropical or subtropical regions, especially diverse in the New World. Nowicke, J. W. 1968. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 55:294-364; Walter, H. 1909. in Das Pflanzenreich IV. 83 [Heft 39]: 1-154. REFERENCES: Steinmann, Victor. 2001. Phytolaccaceae. J. Ariz. - Nev. Acad. Sci. Volume 33(1).
Species within inventory project: Intermountain Regional Herbarium Network
Agdestis clematidea
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Anisomeria littoralis
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Gallesia integrifolia
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Hilleria latifolia
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Hilleria longifolia
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Ledenbergia macrantha
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Ledenbergia peruviana
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Microtea debilis
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Microtea maypurensis
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Microtea portoricensis
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Microtea scabrida
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Monococcus echinophorus
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Petiveria alliacea
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Phytolacca americana
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Phytolacca bogotensis
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Phytolacca brachystachys
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Phytolacca dioica
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Phytolacca dodecandra
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Phytolacca heteropetala
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Phytolacca heterotepala
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Phytolacca icosandra
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Phytolacca japonica
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Phytolacca latbenia
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Phytolacca meziana
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Phytolacca octandra
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Phytolacca rigida
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Phytolacca rivinoides
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Phytolacca rugosa
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Phytolacca sandwicensis
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Phytolacca sanguinea
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Phytolacca thyrsiflora
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Phytolacca vulgaris
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Phytolacca weberbaueri
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Rivina brasiliensis
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Rivina humilis
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Rivina laevis
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Rivina octandra
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Schindleria densiflora
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Schindleria racemosa
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Schindleria tomentosa
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Seguiera nudiflora
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Seguieria americana
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Seguieria brevithyrsa
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Seguieria langsdorffii
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Seguieria parvifolia
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Trichostigma octandrum
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Trichostigma peruvianum
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Trichostigma polyandrum
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