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|accepted_name=Allamanda
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mant. Pl.
|place=2: 146, 214 1771
|year=1771
|other_info_on_pub=as Allemanda
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Allamanda
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Allamanda]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Frederique Louis Allamand, 1736–1803, Swiss physician and botanist, correspondent of Linnaeus
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[lianas, subshrubs, trees]; latex milky. <b>Stems</b> trailing [erect], unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, whorled [subwhorled], rarely opposite [distally alternate], petiolate or sessile; stipular colleters present, intrapetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or subterminal, cymose, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent; corolla yellow [pink, red, violet], funnelform, aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona dissected; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted near top of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, not adherent to stigma; connectives not appendiculate, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary annular. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, solitary, erect, green or tinged with purple-red, subglobose to globose, surface spiny [smooth], glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> orbiculate to ovoid, flattened, winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;South America;some species introduced in tropical regions nearly worldwide.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 15 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The systematic position of Allamanda within Apocynaceae has long been uncertain. At anthesis the ovary is compound, leading K. M. Schumann (1895) to place Allamanda with other genera with compound ovaries in a supposed primitive alliance in the family. M. E. Fallen (1985) has demonstrated that the compound ovary is derived from a gynoecium with two separate ovaries and, based on both molecular and morphological evidence (A. O. Simões et al. 2007), the genus is currently placed in the Plumerieae clade of the subfamily Rauvolfioideae.</p>
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name=Allamanda
|author=David E. Lemke
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
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|family=Apocynaceae
|distribution=Florida;South America;some species introduced in tropical regions nearly worldwide.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Mant. Pl.
|publication year=1771
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Allamanda
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