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|accepted_name=Guapira
|accepted_authority=Aublet
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|place=1: 308, plate 119 (as Quapira). 1775
|year=1775
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Torrubia
|authority=Vellozo
|rank=genus
}}
|hierarchy=Nyctaginaceae;Guapira
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Nyctaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Guapira]]</div></div>
|etymology=Portugese guapirá , a Brazilian name more commonly applied to Avicennia s pecies
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 16
|treatment_page=page 74
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form;whole_organism duration;whole_organism growth form;taproot architecture"><b>Trees </b>or shrubs, perennial, from tuberous taproot.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem architecture;internode pubescence;band coating"><b>Stems </b>erect, divaricately branching, unarmed, internodes without glutinous bands, glabrate (short-pubescent).</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf architecture"><b>Leaves </b>petiolate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade width;margin architecture or shape">blade broadly lanceolate to obovate, thin, margins entire.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture or fragility;bract quantity"><b>Inflorescences </b>in axils of leaves, compound cymose, loose, each flower subtended by 2–3 bracts.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="flower reproduction;flower reproduction;flower size or width"><b>Flowers </b>unisexual, (plants dioecious), chamogamous, narrow;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="perianth architecture;perianth shape;perianth shape;limb orientation;stamen quantity">staminate perianth 5-toothed, tubular to narrowly campanulate, limb not reflexed at maturity, stamens 5–10, exceeding perianth;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="perianth architecture;perianth shape;perianth shape;perianth condition;style size;style position;stigma architecture;hair width">pistillate perianth 5-toothed, tubular, closing over ovary, styles slender, barely exserted, stigmas tipped by fine hairs.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="fruit coloration;fruit architecture or shape;fruit shape;fruit texture;fruit architecture"><b>Fruits </b>bright-orange-red, becoming weakly 10-ribbed upon drying, obovoid to globose, fleshy, glandless.</span><!--

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|distribution=Neotropics
|discussion=<p>Species 10–50 (2 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>The genus is closely allied with Neea Ruiz & Pavón, another dioecious, fleshy-fruited, shrubby member of the Nyctaginaceae restricted to the Neotropics.</p><!--
--><p>See E. L. Little Jr. (1968) for additional synonymy.</p>
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades coriaceous, rigid when dry; young twigs, buds, and inflorescences glabrate or sparsely reddish pubescent
|[[Guapira discolor|Guapira discolor]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Leaf blades fleshy-chartaceous, thin and ± papery when dry; young twigs, buds, and inflo- rescences densely reddish pubescent
|[[Guapira obtusata|Guapira obtusata]]
|}
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Guapira
|author=John S. Clement
|authority=Aublet
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=Torrubia
|basionyms=
|family=Nyctaginaceae
|distribution=Neotropics
|reference=None
|publication title=Hist. Pl. Guiane
|publication year=1775
|special status=
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|genus=Guapira
|band coating=glutinous
|blade shape=broadly lanceolate;obovate
|blade width=thin
|bract quantity=2;3
|flower reproduction=chamogamous;unisexual
|flower size or width=narrow
|fruit architecture=glandless
|fruit architecture or shape=10-ribbed
|fruit coloration=bright-orange-red
|fruit shape=obovoid;globose
|fruit texture=fleshy
|hair width=fine
|inflorescence architecture=cymose;compound
|inflorescence architecture or fragility=loose
|internode pubescence=glabrate
|leaf architecture=petiolate
|limb orientation=not reflexed
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|perianth architecture=pistillate;staminate
|perianth condition=closing
|perianth shape=tubular;5-toothed;tubular;narrowly campanulate
|stamen quantity=5;10
|stem architecture=unarmed;branching
|stem orientation=erect
|stigma architecture=tipped
|style position=exserted
|style size=slender
|taproot architecture=tuberous
|whole_organism duration=perennial;perennial
|whole_organism growth form=shrub;tree
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