STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FLOWER AND FRUIT OF PERESKIA DIAZ-ROMEROANA |
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| Authors: | Norman H Boke |
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| Institution: | Department of Botany and Microbiology, The University of Oklahoma, Norman |
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| Abstract: | Pereskia diaz-romeroana and its putative relatives are scandent plants with vigorously growing long shoots, small flowers and fruits, and tuberous root systems. Except for size, floral development parallels that in other pereskias. The gynoecium has three to six carpels, is basically superior with axlie placentation, and is partially divided into locules by the connate carpel margins. The closest relative of these Andean forms appears to be P. aculeata. |
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