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snake nut

plant

Also known as: Ophiocaryon paradoxum, snakeseed

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Sabiaceae

In Sabiaceae
…and is known as the snake nut. Meliosma, with about 80 species, has two anthers that open explosively after being held under tension by two or three complex staminodes (sterile stamens). Sabia, with some 30 species, and the small genus Kingsboroghia are the other two genera of the family.
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