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Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program
Herbs, sometimes vines, shrubs or trees, with opposite leaves, simple, pinnate venation, exstipulate. Variable inflorescences, with bilateral flowers, often with large, colorful bracts and bracteoles; 5 connate sepals/5 connate petals, 4 didynamous stamens, with filaments adnate to corolla. Superior ovary, 2 fused carpels, with axile placentation. Fruit an explosively dehiscent capsule with a funicle that is modified into a retinacula (a hook-shaped stalk that flings seed out).
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Acanthopale laxiflora
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Acanthopale pubescens
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Acanthopsis hoffmannseggiana
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Acanthus dioscoridis
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Acanthus ebracteatus
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Acanthus guineensis
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Acanthus hungaricus
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Acanthus ilicifolius
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Acanthus leucostachyus
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Acanthus mollis
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Acanthus montanus
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Acanthus polystachyus
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Acanthus pubescens
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Acanthus spinosissimus
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Acanthus spinosus
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Acanthus syriacus
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Ancistranthus harpochiloides
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Andrographis echioides
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Andrographis lobelioides
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Andrographis paniculata
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Anisacanthus abditus
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Anisacanthus andersonii
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Anisacanthus boliviensis
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Anisacanthus brasiliensis
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Anisacanthus gonzalezii
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Anisacanthus juncea
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Anisacanthus junceus
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Anisacanthus linearis
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Anisacanthus puberulus
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Anisacanthus pumilus
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Anisacanthus quadrifidus
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Anisacanthus thurberi
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Anisacanthus trilobus
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Anisacanthus tulensis
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Anisostachya amoena
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Aphanosperma sinaloensis
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Aphelandra acanthifolia
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Aphelandra acanthus
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Aphelandra acutifolia
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Aphelandra albadenia
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Aphelandra albert-smithii
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Aphelandra alexandri
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Aphelandra anomala
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Aphelandra arborescens
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Aphelandra aristei
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Aphelandra atecmarta
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Aphelandra atrovirens
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Aphelandra attenuata
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Aphelandra aurantiaca
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Aphelandra barkleyi
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