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|accepted_name=Agdestis
|accepted_authority=Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat.
|place=1: 511, 543. 1817
|year=1817
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Phytolaccaceae;Agdestis
|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>
|etymology=A mythi-cal hermaphrodite monster, in reference to the original inclusion in Menispermaceae, where it was the only genus with bisexual flowers
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 3
|treatment_page=page 4
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Vines,</b> perennial, semiwoody. <b>Leaves</b> alternate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal or axillary panicles, mostly 50–100-flowered. <b>Flowers</b> epigynous (hypogynous in all other genera); sepals 4(–5); stamens 15–20; carpels (3–)4, connate at least halfway proximally; ovary inferior (3–)4-locular, eventually 1-locular by abortion of septa; style 1; stigmas (3–)4. <b>Fruits</b> cypselas, turbinate, crowned by winglike sepals. <b>Seed</b> 1, by abortion of other (2–)3 ovules.</span><!--

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|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Agdestis
|authority=Sessé & Moçiño ex de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Phytolaccaceae
|distribution=North America;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat.
|publication year=1817
|special status=
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|genus=Agdestis
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