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|accepted_name=Syngonanthus
|accepted_authority=Ruhland in I. Urban
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=in I. Urban,Symbolae Antillarum
|place=1: 487. 1900
|year=1900
}}
|common_names=Shoe-buttons
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Eriocaulaceae;Syngonanthus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Eriocaulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Syngonanthus]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek syngonos, joined together, and anthos, flower, from connate petals of pistillate flowers
|volume=Volume 22
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial [annual], often densely cespitose, rosulate [caulescent]. <b>Roots</b> appearing unbranched, pale, not septate, thickened, spongy. <b>Stems</b> simple [branched], short [to very elongate]. <b>Leaves</b> spreading in flat spiral in rosettes [spreading to erect in high spiral]; blade mostly slender, linear, not evidently lacunate [lacunate], base pale. <b>Inflorescences</b>: scape sheaths narrowly tubular, orifice diagonal, surfaces tomentose to scattered pilosulous, glandular-hairy [glabrous]; scapes 1–several per stem, slender, terete [compressed], pubescent [glabrous to variously pubescent], at least some hairs swollen basally, often glandular distally; mature heads white [dark], hemispheric to globose [turbinate, urceolate]; receptacle pale, pilose with sharp hairs; involucral bracts spreading to ascending, mostly not obscured by expanding flowers, spirally imbricate, pale [brown or black], often gradate, chaffy-papery; receptacular bracts absent [few or reduced]. <b>Flowers</b> with staminate and pistillate on same plants [staminate and pistillate on different plants], 3-merous [2-merous]. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 3, nearly distinct, plane or concave, chaffy, often with tapering, acute hairs; androphore club-shaped or funnelform; petals 3, connate at apex of androphore, narrowly campanulate, 3-lobed, lobes low-triangular [to variously elongate]; stamens 3, low in corolla tube alternating with 3 sessile glands at base of tube; filaments low in corolla tube (at disc, midway), alternating with glands; anthers 2-locular, locules divergent, [2–]4-sporangiate, dorsifixed, exserted, yellowish or white. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: gynophore short; sepals distinct [connate], papery; petals connate, conniving or connate over ovary; pistil 3-carpellate; style1; style branches 3, undivided.</span><!--

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|distribution=Mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa;West Indies;Central America;and South America;the primary center in the planalto of Brazil.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 200 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Syngonanthus
|author=
|authority=Ruhland in I. Urban
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Eriocaulaceae
|distribution=Mostly in tropical and subtropical regions of Africa;West Indies;Central America;and South America;the primary center in the planalto of Brazil.
|reference=None
|publication title=in I. Urban,Symbolae Antillarum
|publication year=1900
|special status=
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|genus=Syngonanthus
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