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|accepted_name=Thevetia
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Opera Var.,
|place=212. 1758
|year=1758
|other_info_on_pub=name conserved
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|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Thevetia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Thevetia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For André Thevet, sixteenth-century French priest and explorer
|volume=Volume 14
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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>or shrubs; latex milky. <b>Stems</b> erect, unarmed, glabrous [sparsely eglandular-pubescent]. <b>Leaves</b> evergreen, alternate, petiolate [sessile]; stipular colleters 2 or 3 at base of petiole on each side, continuous with intrapetiolar colleters, interpetiolar colleters absent; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, corymbiform, simple or compound, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters present [absent]; corolla yellow or orange [sometimes tinted with purple], funnelform [salverform], aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona fingerlike [3-gonous]; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted near top of corolla tube; anthers connivent, agglutinated on stigma, apical connective deltoid, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary disciform. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, solitary, pendulous, green to black [red], obpyriform to subglobose [reniform], rhombic to subterete, smooth, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> reniform, flattened, not winged [winged], not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Florida;United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Bermuda;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 8 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Although some have proposed recognition of Thevetia in the narrow sense as distinct from Cascabela Rafinesque (L. O. Alvarado-Cárdenas and H. Ochoterena 2007; J. F. Morales 2009b, 2009c), the broader concept of A. O. Simões et al. (2007) of a Thevetia that encompasses both taxa is adopted here.</p>
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name=Thevetia
|author=Patricia Sabadin;Alexander Krings
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Apocynaceae
|distribution=Florida;United States;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;introduced also in Bermuda;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Opera Var.,
|publication year=1758
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Thevetia
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