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|accepted_name=Carissa
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|place=12, 2: 135, 189. 1767
|year=1767
|other_info_on_pub=name conserved
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Carissa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carissa]]</div></div>
|etymology=Derivation uncertain; perhaps Sanskrit krishna, dark blue, or Greek charis, grace, alluding to appearance of mature fruit
|volume=Volume 14
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>[trees, vines]; latex milky. <b>Stems</b> erect [scandent], armed with paired spines [unarmed], glabrous or eglandular-pubescent especially on younger growth. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, opposite [whorled], petiolate; stipular colleters intrapetiolar and interpetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal [axillary], cymose, short-pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters present or absent; corolla white [pink], salverform, aestivation sinistrorse [dextrorse]; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at top of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, not adherent to stigma, connectives not appendiculate or enlarged, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectaries absent. <b>Fruits</b> baccate, solitary, erect [pendulous], red or purple [black], globose or ellipsoid, terete or somewhat compressed, surface smooth, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> obliquely ovate to elliptic or orbiculate, flattened, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Ocean Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 7 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Carissa
|author=David E. Lemke
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Apocynaceae
|distribution=Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Ocean Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Syst. Nat. ed.
|publication year=1767
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=
|genus=Carissa
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