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|accepted_name=Agdestis
|accepted_authority=Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat.
|place=1: 511, 543. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Phytolaccaceae;Agdestis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Phytolaccaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Agdestis]]</div></div>
|etymology=A mythi-cal hermaphrodite monster, in reference to the original inclusion in Menispermaceae, where it was the only genus with bisexual flowers
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 3
|treatment_page=page 4
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="vine duration;vine texture"><b>Vines,</b> perennial, semiwoody.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>alternate.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminal or axillary panicles, mostly 50–100-flowered.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="flower position"><b>Flowers </b>epigynous (hypogynous in all other genera);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="sepal atypical count;sepal count">sepals 4 (–5);</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="stamen count">stamens 15–20;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="carpel atypical count;carpel count;carpel fusion;carpel position">carpels (3–) 4, connate at least halfway proximally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="ovary position;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary inferior (3–) 4-locular, eventually 1-locular by abortion of septa;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="style count">style 1;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="stigma atypical count;stigma count">stigmas (3–) 4.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="fruits cypsela shape;fruits cypsela architecture;sepal architecture or shape"><b>Fruits </b>cypselas, turbinate, crowned by winglike sepals.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="seed count;ovule atypical count;ovule count"><b>Seed </b>1, by abortion of other (2–) 3 ovules.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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name=Agdestis
|author=
|authority=Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Phytolaccaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat.
|publication year=1817
|special status=
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|genus=Agdestis
|carpel atypical count=3;4
|carpel count=4
|carpel fusion=connate
|carpel position=halfway
|flower position=epigynous
|fruits cypsela architecture=crowned
|fruits cypsela shape=turbinate
|inflorescence architecture=50-100-flowered
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=1-locular;(3-)4-locular
|ovary position=inferior
|ovule atypical count=2;3
|ovule count=3
|seed count=1
|sepal architecture or shape=winglike
|sepal atypical count=4;5
|sepal count=4
|stamen count=15;20
|stigma atypical count=3;4
|stigma count=4
|style count=1
|vine duration=perennial
|vine texture=semiwoody
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