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780:Description
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986:See also
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859:leaflets
856:elliptic
743:Quenepas
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338:Taxonomy
234:Synonyms
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1440:3189990
1396:Ecocrop
1326:Q279728
1186:4393917
1170:Talisia
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938:Orinoco
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1552:NCBI
1526:IUCN
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