View source for Agdestis clematidea

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|accepted_name=Agdestis clematidea
|accepted_authority=Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat.
|place=1: 543. 1817
|year=1817
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|common_names=Rockroot
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Phytolaccaceae;Agdestis;Agdestis clematidea
|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 class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Agdestis clematidea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 5
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>climbing, to 25 m, pubescent to glabrate. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2–5 cm; blade ovate to reniform, to 9 × 5.5 cm, base cordate, apex obtuse to rounded, often mucronate. <b>Panicles</b> 4–15 cm; peduncle 2–10 cm; pedicel 1–10 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals white to greenish white, reticulate-veined, oblong to ovate or obovate, 4–6.5 mm. <b>Cypselas</b> 2.5 mm (perhaps not maturing in se U.S.), crowned by winglike sepals to 6 × 3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Hammocks, orchards, waste places, ravines
|elevation=0-30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;native to subtropical and tropical America.
|discussion=<p>Of this species, N. L. Britton (1904) wrote, “The flowers and inflorescence are wonderfully <i>Clematis</i>-like, greatly resembling those of <i>Clematis</i> Vitalba of Europe and…those of our own <i>Clematis</i> Virginiana. But the most striking thing about the plant is its horrid odor, the flowers being, if anything, more fetid than those of the carrion-flower or skunk-cabbage….”</p><!--
--><p>The root of <i>Agdestis clematidea</i> allegedly can weigh as much as 68 kg and resemble a large boulder.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=britton1904a
|text=Britton, N. L. 1904. Agdestis clematidea Moçiño & Sessé. Torreya 4: 24.
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name=Agdestis clematidea
|authority=Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Phytolaccaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer–fall.
|habitat=Hammocks, orchards, waste places, ravines
|elevation=0-30 m
|distribution=Fla.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America;native to subtropical and tropical America.
|reference=britton1904a
|publication title=Syst. Nat.
|publication year=1817
|special status=
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|genus=Agdestis
|species=Agdestis clematidea
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