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|accepted_name=Drypetes
|accepted_authority=Vahl
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Eclog. Amer.
|place=3: 49. 1807
|year=1807
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Putranjivaceae;Drypetes
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Putranjivaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Drypetes]]</div></div>
|etymology=Probably from Greek drypa, dried olive or drupe, alluding to fruit
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 328, 368
|treatment_page=page 369
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>[shrubs]; trunks often fluted; indumentum of simple hairs. <b>Leaves</b> often subdistichous; stipules deciduous [persistent]; blade base oblique [rarely symmetrical]. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Staminate</b> flowers: sepals 4–5[–7]; nectary intrastaminal, lobed [annular]; stamens 1–2 times number of sepals [or –50]; pistillode ± rudimentary. <b>Pistillate</b> flowers: sepals 4–5[–7]; nectary annular or lobed [absent]; styles 1 mm or less; stigmas dilated [2-fid, reniform, or subpeltate]. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia;tropical and subtropical regions.
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 200 (2 in the flora).</p>
|tables=
|references=
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Ovaries 2-carpellate; stigmas 2; drupes red-orange at maturity, endocarps 0.5 mm thick, brittle; stamens 4(–5); leaves thick-papery, apices usually abruptly acute to acuminate, venation finely reticulate; buds not resinous.
|[[Drypetes lateriflora|Drypetes lateriflora]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Ovaries 1-carpellate; stigma 1; drupes white at maturity, endocarps 1–2 mm thick, bony; stamens 8(–10); leaves leathery, apices usually rounded to obtuse, if acute, not abruptly so, venation coarsely reticulate; buds resinous.
|[[Drypetes diversifolia|Drypetes diversifolia]]
|}
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name=Drypetes
|author=Geoffrey A. Levin
|authority=Vahl
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Putranjivaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Mexico;West Indies;Central America;South America;Asia;Africa;Indian Ocean Islands;Pacific Islands;Australia;tropical and subtropical regions.
|reference=None
|publication title=Eclog. Amer.
|publication year=1807
|special status=
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/bb6b7e3a7de7d3b7888a1ad48c7fd8f5c722d8d6/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_715.xml
|genus=Drypetes
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