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|accepted_name=Vallesia
|accepted_authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr.,
|place=28, plate 5[top]. 1794
|year=1794
}}
|common_names=Pearl berry
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Vallesia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vallesia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Francisco Vallés, 1524–1592, Spanish botanist, physician to Phillip II
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> more rarely trees, to 12 m; latex sometimes present, milky [clear]. <b>Stems</b> erect, unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate, petiolate; stipular colleters interpetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, occasionally terminal, cymose, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent; corolla white [yellowish orange], salverform, rarely urceolate-salverform, aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at or near orifice of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, adherent to stigma, connectives apiculate, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary adherent to base of ovary. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, solitary (paired), erect, white, oblong-ovoid to reniform, terete to somewhat compressed, smooth, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> oblong-ovoid, somewhat flattened, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 10 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Vallesia
|author=Eliane Meyer Norman
|authority=Ruiz & Pavon
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|family=Apocynaceae
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr.,
|publication year=1794
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|genus=Vallesia
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