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1979.000 Obetia
Description of the genus
Dioecious shrubs or trees, deciduous, with numerous stinging hairs (in ours). Stipules lateral, free. Leaves alternate, petiolate, usually clustered in terminal rosettes. Cystoliths dot-like or elongated. Inflorescences appearing before the new leaves. Flowers pedicellate, clustered in branched, bracteate panicles. Male flowers actinomorhpic, 5-merous. Female flowers zygomorphic, 4-merous. Achene flattened, enclosed in a persistent perianth. Worldwide: 8 species in tropical and South Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes 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 |
| tenax (N.E. Br.) Friis | M | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Obetia:
Our websites:
Flora of Botswana: ObetiaFlora of Zimbabwe: Obetia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): ObetiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Obetia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Obetia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Obetia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Obetia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Obetia
JSTOR Plant Science: Obetia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Obetia
Plants of the World Online: Obetia
Tropicos: Obetia
Wikipedia: Obetia
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