5086.010 Hildegardia Schott & Endl.

Description of the genus

Deciduous shrubs or trees, often with swollen trunks. Leaves entire or lightly lobed; palmately nerved from the base; petiolate; stipules. Inflorescences axillary or subterminal. Calyx with 4-5 reflexed lobes. Ovary of 5 carpels becoming free in fruit, winged.

Worldwide: 11 species: 1 in Cuba; 3 in Africa; 3 in Madagascar and 4 in Tropical Asia, Philippines and northern Australia.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Hildegardia migeodii

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migeodii (Exell) Kosterm.N,MImage

Other sources of information about Hildegardia:

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Hildegardia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Hildegardia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Hildegardia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Hildegardia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Hildegardia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Hildegardia
JSTOR Plant Science: Hildegardia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Hildegardia
Plants of the World Online: Hildegardia
Tropicos: Hildegardia
Wikipedia: Hildegardia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Hildegardia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2340, retrieved 21 November 2024

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