Connarus
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| Connarus | |
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| Fruits of Connarus paniculatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Connaraceae |
| Genus: | Connarus L. [1] |
| Type species | |
| Connarus monocarpos L. [2] | |
| Species | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Connarus is a genus of plants in the family Connaraceae with a pan-tropical distribution.
Plants in this genus are vines, shrubs or small trees. Leaves are compound, either trifoliate or imparipinnate. The inflorescences are panicles, usually terminal or axillary, individual flowers are bisexual (i.e. each having both male and female organs), pentamerous (with five parts), and covered with glands; petals are free of each other, there are ten stamens in two whorls, the inner whorl shorter, and one carpel. The fruit are flattened follicles, often with a stipe at the base and a small beak at the apex, opening on a longitudinal suture. Seeds one, black with a fleshy yellow sarcotesta.[3][4][5][6]
