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|accepted_name=Picramnia
|accepted_authority=Swartz
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.,
|place=2, 27. 1788
|year=1788
}}
|common_names=Bitter bush
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Picramniaceae;Picramnia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Picramniaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Picramnia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek picro, bitter
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 3, 5
|treatment_page=page 4
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, rarely subshrubs, (2–)15–80(–220) dm. <b>Leaves</b> imparipinnate [paripinnate (with 1 of distal pair of leaflets oriented terminally)]; leaflets [1–]5–11[–33], alternate or subopposite, ovate to elliptic, 14–300 × 8–160 mm, base of terminal usually symmetric, of lateral ones usually oblique. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, rarely cauliflorous, [racemes or simple] compound thyrses. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals 5; petals 5; staminate flowers: anthers usually with enlarged connective, thecae parallel; pistils reduced to cylindric or lobed pistillodia or tufts of hairs; pistillate flowers: stamens reduced to staminodia or 0; pistils 2- or 3-carpellate, all carpels potentially fertile. <b>Fruits</b> berries; sepals persistent. <b>Seeds</b> 1–3.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species 43 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Picramnia</i> is a neotropical genus, extending from Florida (Miami-Dade County) and Mexico to subtropical South America (northern Argentina and southern Brazil); members of the genus are found primarily in moist and semideciduous forests.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=thomas1988a
|text=Thomas, W. W. 1988. A conspectus of Mexican and Central American Picramnia (Simaroubaceae). Brittonia 40: 89–105.
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name=Picramnia
|author=
|authority=Swartz
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Picramniaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=thomas1988a
|publication title=Prodr.,
|publication year=1788
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|genus=Picramnia
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