Buettneria
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Buettneria (D. S. Aug. Buettner, 1724-1768, German botanist). Byttneria. Stetcidiaces. About 50 herbs, shrubs or trees of diverse habit, native to eastern and western tropics, scarcely known in cult. Some are prickly climbers or scramblers. Fls. small, usually dark purple or greenish, in umbela or cymes; petals 5, long-clawed, hooded and oddly appendaged at the top: fr. a 5-celled, globose spiny woody caps. One species is catalogued in S. Calif.: B. urticifolia, Schum., from S. Brazil, Argentina: Climbing shrub; branche« grooved, spiny, nearly glabrous: Lvs. long-petioled. cordate-ovate, acuminate, coarsely serrate, appressed-hairv on both sides: fls. 1/3-½in- across, 3-5 in a stalked umbel.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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