Draft:Abuta duckei

Abuta Duckei

Taxonomy

Abuta Duckei is a species of the Abuta genus, which is part of the flowering plant family Menispermaceae¹. This genus consists of about 32 species, native to tropical Central and South America¹.

Description

Abuta species are typically dioecious climbers, or rarely erect trees or shrubs¹. They have simple leaves and their flowers are in composed panicles¹. The male flowers have six sepals in two whorls, six stamens that can be either connate or free, and anthers with a longitudinal or transverse dehiscence¹. The female flowers have sepals and petals similar to the male flowers, six staminodes, and three carpels¹. The drupes are ovoid, the endocarp is woody, the condyle is septiform, the endosperm is ruminate, and the embryo is curved¹. These species are found in the tropical rain forest¹.

Synonymy

The name Abuta Duckei is a synonym of Telitoxicum duckei². It was first published in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 94: 15 (1910)².

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