Sauvagesia

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Sau·va·ge·sia | \ ˌsȯvəˈjēzēə, -ēzhə\

Definition of Sauvagesia

: a genus of chiefly tropical American herbs or undershrubs (family Ochnaceae) having alternate leaves, fringed stipules, and small pentamerous flowers with an outer row of staminodia which is filiform and an inner row of staminodia which is petaloid

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