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Dioecious reddish parasites. Leaves scale-like, many, spirally arranged. Inflorescence much-branched bearing unisexual flowers. Male plants: inflorescence branches bearing flowers in groups of 2-3 on short secondary brances; male flowers 3(-4)-merous. Female plants: inflorescence branches with 5-12 subglobular spadix-like clusters of ± 200 flowers sunk in a common receptacle; style 0. Fruit a syncarp with individual fruits forming a spherical false berry. |
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| sanguinea Sparrm. subsp. piriei (Hutch.) B. Hansen | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NWES |
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