Phenax Wedd.

Genus

Angiosperms > Rosales > Urticaceae

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Unarmed shrubs or suffrutescent herbs; leaves alternate, petiolate, toothed, rarely entire, the cystoliths mainly punctiform; plants monoecious or dioecious, the flowers in dense, sessile, axillary clusters; staminate flowers usually 4-lobed; pistillate flowers without a perianth, the small achene sessile and subtended by a brown, scarious bractlet, the stigma elongate-filiform, persistent.
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Subshrubs, monoecious, without stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, distichous; stipules free; blade pinnately veined. Inflorescences bisexual, sessile, subcapitate glomerules with (sub)sessile flowers. Staminate flowers with 4, connate tepals; stamens 4. Pistillate flowers without perianth; stigma filiform, persistent. Fruit an achene.
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