The stem is erect, simple, glabrous and striated, the leaves vary in shape on a single plant, with larger, broader, ovate to lanceolate, serrated, petiolated leaves at the base of the stem and smaller, narrower, lanceolate to linear cauline leaves.
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Like other " Eleutherine " species, " E . bulbosa " has a bulbous rootstock; a large subapical cauline leaf; and small, white, stellate, evening-blooming flowers . " E . bulbosa " grows in southern Mexico and in the Amazon rainforest, within the borders of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana, in addition to the Acre.
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The various species of " Amelanchier " grow to 0.2 20 m tall; some are small trees, some are multistemmed, clump-forming shrubs, and yet others form extensive low shrubby patches ( leaves are deciduous, cauline, alternate, simple, lanceolate to elliptic to orbiculate, 0.5 10 x 0.5 5.5 cm, thin to coriaceous, with surfaces above glabrous or densely tomentose at flowering, and glabrous or more or less hairy beneath at maturity.
