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|accepted_name=Adelia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=10, 2: 1285, 1298. 1759
|year=1759
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|common_names=Wild lime
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Euphorbiaceae;Adelia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Euphorbiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Adelia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek a-, not, and delos, evident, alluding to small, obscure flowers
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 157, 159, 160
|treatment_page=page 181
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees], unarmed or branchlets sometimes stiff and thorn-tipped, dioecious [monoecious], hairs unbranched; latex absent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous, fascicled on short shoots [alternate], simple; stipules present, deciduous; petiole present, glands absent; blade unlobed, margins entire [crenate], laminar glands absent; venation palmate at base and pinnate distally [pinnate]. <b>Inflorescences</b> unisexual [bisexual], axillary, fascicles [racemes] or flowers solitary; bracts subtending pistillate flowers minute, not enlarging in fruit; glands subtending each bract 0. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals [4–]5, not petaloid, 2[–5] mm, valvate, distinct; petals 0; nectary extrastaminal, annular [5 glands], adnate to calyx; stamens [6–-]14–17[–30], connate basally [distinct]; pistillode present [absent]. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 5(–6)[–7], distinct; petals 0; nectary annular; pistil (2–)3(–4)–carpellate; styles (2–)3(–4), distinct [connate basally], deeply multifid. <b>Fruits</b> capsules. <b>Seeds</b> subglobose; caruncle absent.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;tropical and subtropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species 9 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular data support <i>Adelia</i> as a monophyletic group sister to the Caribbean genera Lasiocroton Grisebach and Leucocroton Grisebach (De-Nova and V. Sosa 2007). Three principal lineages were recognized in <i>Adelia</i>: the first includes only A. cinerea (Wiggins & Rollins) A. Cervantes, V. W. Steinmann & Flores Olvera, a species endemic to Mexico; the second includes four Mexican species (including <i>A. vaseyi</i>); and the third comprises the remaining four species from the West Indies, Central America, and South America.</p>
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name=Adelia
|author=J. Arturo De-Nova
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Euphorbiaceae
|illustrator=Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey
|illustration copyright=Flora of North America Association
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;tropical and subtropical regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1759
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/eaa6e58056e40c9ef614d8f47aea294977a1a5e9/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_801.xml
|genus=Adelia
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