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|accepted_name=Turbina
|accepted_authority=Rafinesque
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. Tellur.
|place=4: 81. 1838
|year=1838
}}
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Convolvulaceae;Turbina
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Convolvulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Turbina]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin turbinata, obconical, alluding to fruit shape
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials </b>or lianas, [shrubs]. <b>Stems</b> twining-climbing, [trailing], glabrous or hairy [glabrescent]. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate [subsessile]; blade cordate to ovate-cordate [oblong to linear], 20–100 mm, surfaces glabrous or hairy. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–16-flowered or flowers solitary. <b>Flowers</b>: sepals oblong [ovate to lanceolate], 7–12 mm, sometimes unequal, accrescent in fruit; corolla proximally purplish, distally ± white with greenish bands, campanulate [funnelform or salverform], 25–40[–80] mm, limb entire or 5-toothed; styles 1; stigmas 2, globose. <b>Fruits</b> capsular or nutlike, dry, oblong-ovoid [ellipsoid, fusiform, turbinate], indehiscent. <b>Seeds</b> 1(or 2), ovoid [ellipsoid, fusiform, or globose], hairy.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Caledonia);introduced also in Atlantic Islands (Tenerife).
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 15 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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name=Turbina
|author=Daniel F. Austin†
|authority=Rafinesque
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Convolvulaceae
|distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Africa;Pacific Islands (New Caledonia);introduced also in Atlantic Islands (Tenerife).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. Tellur.
|publication year=1838
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=
|genus=Turbina
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