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Latest revision as of 13:14, 24 November 2024
Shrubs [trees]; latex milky. Stems erect, unarmed, glabrous [eglandular-pubescent]. Leaves persistent, whorled or sometimes opposite at lower nodes, petiolate; stipular colleters intrapetiolar; laminar colleters absent. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, cymose, pedunculate. Flowers: calycine colleters absent; corolla white or cream [pale purple, pink], rotate [salverform], aestivation sinistrorse; 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; nectary annular. Fruits drupaceous, solitary or partly to completely coherent, erect, initially red, maturing black, globose to depressed-globose, smooth, glabrous. Seeds ovate, not winged, not beaked, not comose, not arillate. x = 11.
Distribution
Introduced; Florida, Mexico, West Indies, Central America, South America, Asia, Africa, Indian Ocean Islands, Pacific Islands, introduced also in s Asia, Australia.
Discussion
Species ca. 80 (1 in the flora).
Selected References
None.