Sauropus
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Sauropus (Greek for lizard foot). Euphorbiaceae. Tropical shrubs rarely cult.: lvs. alternate, simple: fls. in axillary clusters, apetalous, sepals imbricate; no rudiment of a pistil in the staminate fls.; disk absent from the pistillate fls.; styles almost entire; ovules 2 in each of the 3 cells of the ovary: fr. more or less fleshy.— About 20 species of Trop. Asia and South Sea Isls. Related to Phyllanthus. S. albicans, Blume, occurring in many varieties from Ceylon to the Philippines, has edible fr. and has been in cult. in Eu. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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