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Dorstenia
Family:
Moraceae
FNA
Resources
Richard P. Wunderlin in Flora of North America (vol. 3)
Herbs , perennial, rhizomatous; stems short, fleshy, aerial stems not evident; sap milky. Leaves alternate; stipules persistent, free. Leaf blade ovate to orbiculate, margins entire or pinnately lobed; venation palmate near base of blade, otherwise pinnate. Inflorescences axillary, flowers embedded in long-pedunculate, flat receptacle. Flowers: staminate and pistillate on same plant. Staminate flowers: calyx minute, 2-3-lobed; stamens 1-3, inflexed in bud. Pistillate flowers: calyx tubular, 4-lobed; ovary inferior, embedded in receptacle, 1-locular; style 2-branched. Syncarps disc- or cup-shaped; drupes embedded in enlarged, fleshy, common receptacle. Seeds explosively expelled.
Species within checklist:
Sonoran Desert Region
Dorstenia drakena
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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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