View source for Vallesia ← Vallesia You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Vallesia |accepted_authority=Ruiz & Pavon |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr., |place=28, plate 5[top]. 1794 |year=1794 }} |common_names=Pearl berry |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Apocynaceae;Vallesia |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Apocynaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vallesia]]</div></div> |etymology=For Francisco Vallés, 1524–1592, Spanish botanist, physician to Phillip II |volume=Volume 14 |mention_page= |treatment_page= }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> more rarely trees, to 12 m; latex sometimes present, milky [clear]. <b>Stems</b> erect, unarmed, glabrous or eglandular-pubescent. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, alternate, petiolate; stipular colleters interpetiolar; laminar colleters absent. <b>Inflorescences</b> extra-axillary, occasionally terminal, cymose, pedunculate. <b>Flowers</b>: calycine colleters absent; corolla white [yellowish orange], salverform, rarely urceolate-salverform, aestivation sinistrorse; corolline corona absent; androecium and gynoecium not united into a gynostegium; stamens inserted at or near orifice of corolla tube; anthers not connivent, adherent to stigma, connectives apiculate, locules 4; pollen free, not massed into pollinia, translators absent; nectary adherent to base of ovary. <b>Fruits</b> drupaceous, solitary (paired), erect, white, oblong-ovoid to reniform, terete to somewhat compressed, smooth, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> oblong-ovoid, somewhat flattened, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America. |discussion=<p>Species ca. 10 (1 in the flora).</p> |tables= |references= }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Vallesia |author=Eliane Meyer Norman |authority=Ruiz & Pavon |rank=genus |parent rank=family |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Apocynaceae |distribution=Florida;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America. |reference=None |publication title=Fl. Peruv. Prodr., |publication year=1794 |special status= |source xml= |genus=Vallesia }}<!-- -->[[Category:Treatment]][[Category:Apocynaceae]] Templates used on this page: Template:Apocynaceae (view source) Template:Treatment/AuthorLink (view source) Template:Treatment/Body (view source) Template:Treatment/Body/Maps (view source) Template:Treatment/ID (view source) Template:Treatment/Publication (view source) Return to Vallesia.