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|accepted_name=Clusia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 509. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 225. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Balsam - or monkey-apple
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Clusiaceae;Clusia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Clusiaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Clusia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Charles l’Écluse, 1525 – 1609, Flemish botanist
|volume=Volume 6
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 67
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees [lianas], sometimes epiphytic or epilithic with adventitious roots, sometimes polygamodioecious, sap yellowish [white]. <b>Stems</b> terete [4-lined]. <b>Leaves</b> petiolate [sessile]; petiole planoconvex to terete; blade leathery or fleshy, margins sometimes revolute, venation pinnate, glandular canals crossing veins. <b>Inflorescences</b> 1–3-flowered; bracts 2–6. <b>Flowers</b> stellate or cupuliform; sepals 4[–6], margins entire, glands linear, often obscure; petals [4–]6(–8)[–10], imbricate or decussate, white, turning pink to brown [red, yellow], margins entire, glands linear, laminar; [staminate flowers: stamens distinct or connate, pistillodes present or absent]; bisexual or pistillate flowers sometimes with ring of ± connate stamens or staminodes or sterile annulus; stigmas radiating. <b>Capsules</b> [4–]6–9(–12)-valved, leathery or fleshy. <b>Seeds</b>: aril red, basal or ± enveloping seed.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|discussion=<p>A report of <i>Clusia</i> flava Jacquin from the Florida Keys (J. K. Small 1913c) was apparently erroneous.</p><!--
--><p>Species 150+ (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Clusia
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Clusiaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V6/V6_108.xml
|genus=Clusia
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