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Image Title: Fruiting Capsule of a Pachira Species from Estado Amazonas, Venezuela
Image Credit: Gustavo A. Romero
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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Fruiting capsule of a Pachira species from Estado Amazonas, Venezuela, which has been opened to show its large, floatable seeds. The seeds of other species in this genus of tropical trees are smaller and surrounded by dense, non-wettable hairs. Pachira is a member of the traditional family Bombacaceae, which like the Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae has been found to be non-monophyletic.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Phylogeny of the core Malvales: evidence from ndhF sequence data

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