Vines, perennial, semiwoody. Leaves alternate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary panicles, mostly 50-100-flowered. Flowers epigynous (hypogynous in all other genera); sepals 4(-5); stamens 15-20; carpels (3-)4, connate at least halfway proximally; ovary inferior (3-)4-locular, eventually 1-locular by abortion of septa; style 1; stigmas (3-)4. Fruits cypselas, turbinate, crowned by winglike sepals. Seed 1, by abortion of other (2-)3 ovules. AGDESTIS Moç. & Sessé ex DC. Agdestis clematidea Moç. & Sessé ex DC., Syst. Nat. 1: 543. 1818. Trepadoras herbáceas, perennes; plantas hermafroditas. Hojas ovadas a orbiculares, 45 cm de largo y 36 cm de ancho, redondeadas en el ápice, lobadas en la base. Panículas 1015 cm de largo, flores blancas; sépalos 4, 68 mm de largo, acrescentes; pétalos ausentes; estambres 14 (20); ovario subínfero, 4-locular. Fruto un aquenio por aborto. Rara, bosques secos, la zona pacífica; 50550 m; fl juloct; Robleto 1436, Stevens 9242; Estados Unidos (Florida y Texas) a Nicaragua. Género monotípico. "Vómito". Vines, perennial, semiwoody. Leaves alternate. Inflorescences terminal or axillary panicles, mostly 50-100-flowered. Flowers epigynous (hypogynous in all other genera); sepals 4(-5); stamens 15-20; carpels (3-)4, connate at least halfway proximally; ovary inferior (3-)4-locular, eventually 1-locular by abortion of septa; style 1; stigmas (3-)4. Fruits cypselas, turbinate, crowned by winglike sepals. Seed 1, by abortion of other (2-)3 ovules. AGDESTIS Moç. & Sessé ex DC. Agdestis clematidea Moç. & Sessé ex DC., Syst. Nat. 1: 543. 1818. Trepadoras herbáceas, perennes; plantas hermafroditas. Hojas ovadas a orbiculares, 45 cm de largo y 36 cm de ancho, redondeadas en el ápice, lobadas en la base. Panículas 1015 cm de largo, flores blancas; sépalos 4, 68 mm de largo, acrescentes; pétalos ausentes; estambres 14 (20); ovario subínfero, 4-locular. Fruto un aquenio por aborto. Rara, bosques secos, la zona pacífica; 50550 m; fl juloct; Robleto 1436, Stevens 9242; Estados Unidos (Florida y Texas) a Nicaragua. Género monotípico. "Vómito".General Information
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