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|accepted_name=Berchemia
|accepted_authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=2: 22. 1825
|year=1825
}}
|common_names=Rattan
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Berchemia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Berchemia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Jacob Pierre Berthoud van Berchem, eighteenth-century Dutch mineralogist and naturalist
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 44, 62, 70
|treatment_page=page 59
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Woody </b>vines [shrubs, trees], tendrils absent, unarmed; bud scales present. <b>Stems</b> twining, glabrous [hairy]. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous [persistent], alternate; blade not gland-dotted; pinnately veined, secondary, and usually tertiary, veins strongly parallel. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, paniclelike thyrses [corymblike cymes or fascicles]; peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> functionally unisexual (plants functionally dioecious) [bisexual]; hypanthium patelliform, cupulate, or hemispheric, 2–3 mm wide; sepals 5, staminate spreading, pistillate erect, greenish, triangular [rarely linear or narrowly lanceolate], keeled adaxially; petals 5, cream or yellowish to greenish white, flat, spatulate to lanceolate, short-clawed; nectary fleshy, 10-lobed, filling hypanthium; stamens 5; ovary superior, 2-locular; style 1. <b>Fruits</b> drupes; stone 1, indehiscent.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p><i>Berchemia scandens</i> is the only New World species in the genus. The disjunction of <i>B. scandens</i> from the southeastern United States to Chiapas and Guatemala is remarkable but there seem to be no morphological differences.</p>
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name=Berchemia
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1825
|special status=
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|genus=Berchemia
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