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Ayenia fasciculata Millsp. ex Standley

Low shrub with dimorphic stems (long shoots and short shoots); leaves alternate (clustered on short shoots), simple, palmately veined, base cordate, margin serrate, apex acutei inflorescence cymose; flowers pale yellow; sepals reflexed; petals clawed at the base, converging canopy-like over the center of the flower; stamens and staminodia forming a staminal tube, each anther covered by a petal.

Photographs at left and below from the general vicinity of Dzilbilchaltun.

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