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Carpodiptera
Description of the genus
Small trees. Leaves petiolate. Stipules present. Flowers sometimes unisexual, in axillary pedunculate cymes. Sepals connate into a 2-3-lobed campanulate calyx. Petals 5, white (in ours), narrowed at the base, without glands. Stamens many. Ovary 2-locular, with 1(-2) pendulous ovules per loculus. Fruit a 2-valved capsule with very broad wings. Seed usually 1, usually hairy at the apex. Worldwide: 1 species in Africa; 7 in tropical America Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| africana Mast. | N,GI | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Carpodiptera:
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CarpodipteraBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Carpodiptera
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Carpodiptera
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Carpodiptera
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Carpodiptera
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Carpodiptera
JSTOR Plant Science: Carpodiptera
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Carpodiptera
Plants of the World Online: Carpodiptera
Tropicos: Carpodiptera
Wikipedia: Carpodiptera
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