5544.000 Terminalia L.

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, without scales or microscopic stalked glands. Leaves spirally arranged, often crowded in terminal rosettes, sometimes on short shoots. Flowers usually in axillary spikes with male flowers towards the apex, bisexual towards base. Male flowers stalked, bisexual sessile. Petals 0. Stamens usually 10, exserted. Ovary inferior. Fruit 2-winged (in ours).

Worldwide: 150 species in the tropics

Mozambique: 3 cultivated taxa.

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:

Coeliades pisistratus (Two-pip policeman)

Trabala charon

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Species	Content
arjuna (Roxb. ex DC.) Wight & Arn.
bellirica (Gaertn.) Roxb.
catappa L.	Description, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Terminalia
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Flora of Malawi: Terminalia
Flora of Mozambique: Terminalia
Flora of Zambia: Terminalia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Terminalia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Terminalia

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