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|accepted_name=Guapira
|accepted_authority=Aublet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|place=1: 308, plate 119 (as Quapira). 1775
|year=1775
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Torrubia
|authority=Vellozo
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Guapira
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Guapira]]</div></div>
|etymology=Portugese guapirá , a Brazilian name more commonly applied to Avicennia s pecies
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 16
|treatment_page=page 74
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, perennial, from tuberous taproot. <b>Stems</b> erect, divaricately branching, unarmed, internodes without glutinous bands, glabrate (short pubescent). <b>Leaves</b> petiolate; blade broadly lanceolate to obovate, thin, margins entire. <b>Inflorescences</b> in axils of leaves, compound cymose, loose, each flower subtended by 2–3 bracts. <b>Flowers</b> unisexual, (plants dioecious), chamogamous, narrow; staminate perianth 5-toothed, tubular to narrowly campanulate, limb not reflexed at maturity, stamens 5–10, exceeding perianth; pistillate perianth 5-toothed, tubular, closing over ovary, styles slender, barely exserted, stigmas tipped by fine hairs. <b>Fruits</b> bright orange-red, becoming weakly 10-ribbed upon drying, obovoid to globose, fleshy, glandless.</span><!--

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|distribution=Neotropics.
|discussion=<p>Species 10–50 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The genus is closely allied with Neea Ruiz & Pavón, another dioecious, fleshy-fruited, shrubby member of the Nyctaginaceae restricted to the Neotropics.</p><!--
--><p>See E. L. Little Jr. (1968) for additional synonymy.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades coriaceous, rigid when dry; young twigs, buds, and inflorescences glabrate or sparsely reddish pubescent
|[[Guapira discolor|Guapira discolor]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades fleshy-chartaceous, thin and ± papery when dry; young twigs, buds, and inflo- rescences densely reddish pubescent
|[[Guapira obtusata|Guapira obtusata]]
|}
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name=Guapira
|author=John S. Clement
|authority=Aublet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Torrubia
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|distribution=Neotropics.
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|publication year=1775
|special status=
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|genus=Guapira
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