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|accepted_name=Araujia
|accepted_authority=Brotero
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=12: 62, plates 4, 5. 1818
|year=1818
}}
|common_names=Bladderflower
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Araujia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Araujia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Antonio de Matos Araujo, nineteenth-century Portuguese plant collector
|volume=Volume 14
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties="">Lianas; latex white. <b>Stems</b> prostrate or twining, unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent to semipersistent, opposite, petiolate; stipular colleters absent or 2, 1 borne at base of petiole on each side, interpetiolar and infrapetiolar colleters absent; laminar colleters present. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, solitary, racemose or cymose, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent or present; corolla white, light pink, or pale to waxy green, rotate or funnelform, aestivation valvate; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium united into a gynostegium adnate to corolla tube; gynostegial corona a tube or interrupted and of cartilaginous to fleshy, irregularly toothed to entire segments; anthers adnate to style, locules 2; pollen in each theca massed into rigid, vertically oriented pollinium, pollinia lacrimiform, joined from adjacent anthers by translators to common corpusculum and together forming pollinarium. <b>Fruits</b> follicles, solitary, pendulous or somewhat deflexed, green, ovoid, terete or somewhat compressed, smooth or longitudinally furrowed, glabrous or pubescent. <b>Seeds</b> obdeltate, obpyriform, or oblong, flattened to navicular, winged or not, not beaked, comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 10, 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=South America;introduced also in Central America;Europe;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (2 in the flora).</p>
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|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Sepals lanceolate to oblong, not leaflike, 1–3 mm wide; corollas rotate, pale to waxy green, gynostegial corona of staminal and interstaminal elements fused into tube, tube 5–8 mm, obscuring gynostegium; style-head extension absent.
|[[Araujia odorata|Araujia odorata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Sepals ovate, leaflike, 3–7 mm wide; corollas funnelform, white or light pink, gynostegial corona of 5 distinct staminal elements, each to 3.9 mm, not fused into tube, tube 12.1–15.9 mm, not obscuring gynostegium; style-head extension 2-fid, 3.5 mm.
|[[Araujia sericifera|Araujia sericifera]]
|}
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name=Araujia
|author=C. Lee Kimmel;Alexander Krings
|authority=Brotero
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Apocynaceae
|distribution=South America;introduced also in Central America;Europe;Africa;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1818
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=
|genus=Araujia
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