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|accepted_name=Lepuropetalon
|accepted_authority=Elliott
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|place=1: 370. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Celastraceae;Lepuropetalon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Celastraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lepuropetalon]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek lepyron, scale, and petalon, petals, alluding to scalelike petals inserted into calyx
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 111, 112
|treatment_page=page 117
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> winter annual, often hemispheric tufts. <b>Stems</b> erect, branched or unbranched. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, alternate or subopposite; stipules absent; petiole present; blade margins entire; venation palmate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, cymules or flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual, radially symmetric or weakly asymmetric; perianth and androecium perigynous; hypanthium completely adnate to ovary; sepals 5, connate proximally; petals 0 or (4–)5, white, 0–0.4 mm, much shorter than sepals; nectary absent; stamens 5; staminodes 5, opposite petals, undivided, not gland-tipped; pistil 3-carpellate; ovary inferior, 1-locular, placentation parietal; styles 3, weakly connate proximally; stigmas 3; ovules 40–70. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, 1-locular, 3-valved, obpyramidal, apex not beaked. <b>Seeds</b> 40–70 per fruit, oblong, not winged; aril absent. <b>x</b> = 23.</span><!--

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|distribution=sc;se United States;Mexico;South America (Chile;Uruguay).
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ward1987a
|text=Ward, D. B. and A. K. Gholson. 1987. The hidden abundance of Lepuropetalon spathulatum (Saxifragaceae) and its first reported occurrence in Florida. Castanea 52: 59–66.
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name=Lepuropetalon
|author=Dayle E. Saar
|authority=Elliott
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Celastraceae
|distribution=sc;se United States;Mexico;South America (Chile;Uruguay).
|reference=ward1987a
|publication title=Sketch Bot. S. Carolina
|publication year=1817
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_35.xml
|genus=Lepuropetalon
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