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|accepted_name=Berchemia
|accepted_authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Prodr.
|place=2: 22. 1825
|year=1825
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|common_names=Rattan
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rhamnaceae;Berchemia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rhamnaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Berchemia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Jacob Pierre Berthoud van Berchem, eighteenth-century Dutch mineralogist and naturalist
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 44, 62, 70
|treatment_page=page 59
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism texture;whole_organism growth form;tendril presence;tendril architecture"><b>Woody </b>vines [shrubs, trees], tendrils absent, unarmed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="bud-scale presence">bud-scales present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="stem growth form;stem pubescence"><b>Stems </b>twining, glabrous [hairy].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="leaf duration;leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>deciduous [persistent], alternate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="">blade not gland-dotted;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="blade coloration;blade architecture;blade position or structure subtype;blade position;vein arrangement">pinnately veined, secondary, and usually tertiary, veins strongly parallel.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="inflorescence position;inflorescence position;thyrse shape"><b>Inflorescences </b>axillary or terminal, paniclelike thyrses [corymblike cymes or fascicles];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="peduncle texture;pedicel texture">peduncles and pedicels not fleshy in fruit.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="pedicel presence"><b>Pedicels </b>present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="flower reproduction"><b>Flowers </b>functionally unisexual (plants functionally dioecious) [bisexual];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="hypanthium shape;hypanthium shape;hypanthium shape;hypanthium shape;hypanthium shape;hypanthium width">hypanthium patelliform, cupulate, or hemispheric, 2–3 mm wide;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="sepal quantity;sepal architecture;sepal orientation;sepal architecture;sepal orientation;sepal coloration;sepal shape;sepal shape">sepals 5, staminate spreading, pistillate erect, greenish, triangular [rarely linear or narrowly lanceolate], keeled adaxially;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="petal quantity;petal coloration;petal shape;petal shape;petal shape">petals 5, cream or yellowish to greenish white, flat, spatulate to lanceolate, short-clawed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="nectary texture;nectary shape">nectary fleshy, 10-lobed, filling hypanthium;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 5;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="ovary position;ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary superior, 2-locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="style quantity">style 1.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties=""><b>Fruits </b>drupes;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="stone quantity;stone dehiscence">stone 1, indehiscent.</span><!--

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|distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 12 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>Berchemia scandens is the only New World species in the genus. The disjunction of B. scandens from the southeastern United States to Chiapas and Guatemala is remarkable but there seem to be no morphological differences.</p>
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name=Berchemia
|author=Guy L. Nesom
|authority=Necker ex de Candolle in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rhamnaceae
|distribution=c;e United States;Mexico (Chiapas);Central America (Guatemala);Asia;Africa;tropical to warm temperate regions
|reference=None
|publication title=Prodr.
|publication year=1825
|special status=
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|genus=Berchemia
|blade architecture=veined
|blade coloration=not gland-dotted
|blade position=tertiary
|blade position or structure subtype=secondary
|bud-scale presence=absent
|flower reproduction=unisexual
|hypanthium shape=hemispheric;cupulate;hemispheric;cupulate;patelliform
|hypanthium width=2mm;3mm
|inflorescence position=terminal;axillary
|leaf arrangement=alternate
|leaf duration=deciduous
|nectary shape=10-lobed
|nectary texture=fleshy
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=2-locular
|ovary position=superior
|pedicel presence=absent
|pedicel texture=not fleshy
|peduncle texture=not fleshy
|petal coloration=yellowish;greenish white
|petal quantity=5
|petal shape=short-clawed;spatulate;lanceolate
|sepal architecture=pistillate;staminate
|sepal coloration=greenish
|sepal orientation=erect;spreading
|sepal quantity=5
|sepal shape=keeled;triangular
|stamen quantity=5
|stem growth form=twining
|stem pubescence=glabrous
|stone dehiscence=indehiscent
|stone quantity=1
|style quantity=1
|tendril architecture=unarmed
|tendril presence=absent
|thyrse shape=paniclelike
|vein arrangement=parallel
|whole_organism growth form=vine
|whole_organism texture=woody
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