Malpighia
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Read about Malpighia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Malpighia(Marcello Malpighi, 1628-1693, distinguished naturalist at Bologna, who wrote on the anatomy of plants). Malpighiaceae. Trees and shrubs, sometimes grown under glass for ornament, but known mostly from the Barbados cherry, cultivated in the American tropics. Leaves opposite, short-stalked, glabrous or tomentose, entire or spiny-toothed: fls. axillary and terminal, clustered or corymbose, rarely solitary, red, rose or white; calyx with a pair of thick glands on the back of some or all the 5 sepals; stamens 10, all perfect, the base of filaments glabrous; ovary 3-celled; styles 3, distinct: drupe 3-pyrenous, not winged, the stones with 3-5 crests or wings on the back.—Species 30-40 in Trop. Amer., extending as far north as S. Texas. Small describes 29 species in N. Amer. Fl. XXV, p. 152 (1910).
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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