Dalechampia

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Read about Dalechampia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Dalechampia (from J. Dalechamps, French savant of sixteenth century). Euphorbiaceae. Climbing or rarely erect tropical shrubs; one rarely cultivated in warmhouses for its ornamental bracts.

Leaves alternate, simple; stipules large: fls. small, monoecious, apetalous, in dense clusters, with 2 conspicuous, colored involucral bracts; calyx valvate; styles united; ovules 1 in each of the 3-4 cells.—About 60 species scattered through the tropics. Plukenetia, a related genus, is without the large involucre.

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