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Holmbergia Hicken

Kühn, U., 1993, Chenopodiaceae, Kubitzki, K., Rohwer, J. G. & Bittrich, V. (Editors). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 253-281 : 265

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 3540555099

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scientific name

 Holmbergia Hicken
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7. Holmbergia Hicken

Holmbergia Hicken, Apuntes Hist. Nat.l: 65 (1909); Scott Feddes Repert.89: 1-12 (1978).

Climbing shrub. Flowers clustered in leaf axils or arranged in a terminal spike, unisexual; perianth lobes 5, persistent in fruit; ovary globose; stigmas 2. Fruit a spongy berry; seeds vertical; embryo annular; radicle centrifugal. One sp., H tweedii (Moq.) Hicken ex Speg., Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.

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