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|accepted_name=Asemeia
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
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|title=Herb. Raf.,
|place=80. 1833
|year=1833
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|hierarchy=Polygalaceae;Asemeia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Polygalaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Asemeia]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek a, absence, and semion, sign or flag, alluding to distinctness from Polygala in absence of vexillum
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, sometimes suffrutescent, single- to multi-stemmed. <b>Stems</b> usually erect, sometimes laxly spreading, pubescent or glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; petiolate; not strongly dimorphic; blade surfaces usually pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary, racemes; peduncle present; bracts deciduous or persistent. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> pink to purple (wings becoming green in fruit), chasmogamous, 5–9 mm; sepals persistent, lower 2 connate3/4 their length, distally 2-lobed, pubescent or subglabrous, sometimes marginally glandular-ciliate; wings persistent, (2.5–)4–7 mm, pubescent or subglabrous; keel entire, without crest or beak, often with lateral folds, pubescent; stamens 8, not grouped into bundles of 4; ovary 2-loculed. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscent, margins not or very narrowly winged, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> densely pubescent, arillate, aril lobes vestigial or present.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 28 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Rafinesque considered Asemeia to contain two species of Polygala combined by Elliott under the name P. pubescens. He characterized the genus by its absence of a crest, tuberculate keel petal, and 2-loculed, winged capsule with two seeds; the absence of a crest is known in other species of Polygalaceae. It is not clear what Rafinesque meant by a tuberculate keel petal (although it may be a reference to the lateral folds often found on the keel). Most members of the traditional Polygala in the broad sense have 2-loculed capsules, winged in many species, with two seeds.</p>
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name=Asemeia
|authority=Rafinesque
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|parent rank=family
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|family=Polygalaceae
|distribution=se United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Herb. Raf.,
|publication year=1833
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