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|accepted_name=Malpighia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 425. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Malpighiaceae;Malpighia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Malpighiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malpighia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Marcello Malpighi, 1628–1694, Italian anatomist
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 355, 356
|treatment_page=page 358
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or small trees. <b>Leaves</b> usually bearing (0–)2–4[–10] glands impressed in abaxial surface of blade; stipules interpetiolar, mostly distinct. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary, dense corymbs or umbels. <b>Pedicels</b> raised on peduncles. <b>Flowers</b> all chasmogamous, 6+ mm diam., showy with visible petals, stamens, and styles; calyx glands 6(–10) (3 sepals each bearing 2 large glands, others very rarely bearing 1–4 smaller glands); corollas bilaterally symmetric, petals pink, lavender, or white, glabrous [glabrate]; stamens 10, all fertile; anthers subequal or 2 opposite posterior-lateral petals larger; pistil 3-carpellate, carpels completely [rarely proximally] connate in ovary; styles 3, cylindric, stout; stigmas on internal angle or subterminal, large. <b>Fruits</b> drupes [berries or very rarely breaking into separate pyrenes], red [sometimes orange]; pyrenes 3, connate in center or distinct at maturity but then usually retained in common exocarp, walls hard, bearing rudimentary dorsal and lateral wings and sometimes rudimentary intermediate winglets or dissected outgrowths. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 50 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Malpighia</i> coccigera Linnaeus, dwarf- or Singapore-holly, native to the West Indies, is grown as an ornamental. <i>Malpighia</i> emarginata, acerola or Barbados cherry, native to Mexico and Central America, is widely cultivated for its fruits, which are rich in vitamin C.</p>
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name=Malpighia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
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|family=Malpighiaceae
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
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|genus=Malpighia
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