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Nerium L.

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Nerium L., Sp. Pl. 209 (1753)
Nerium L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
209
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Nerium L.
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Nerium

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Nerium

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Nerium L.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees. Sap not milky. Lvs opposite or in whorls of 3-4; stomata in pits on lower surface. Fls in terminal branched cymes, large, 5-merous. Calyx lobed almost to base. Corolla funnelform, with a corona of 5 laciniate or dentate scale-like appendages in the widely open throat; lobes spreading, twisted clockwise in bud. Stamens included, inserted near corolla throat; filaments very short; anthers connivent, with long, apical, hairy, twisted awns. Disc glands 0. Fr. a pair of long slender follicles. Seeds with apical coma of hairs.

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1 January 2000
26 August 2008
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