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3925.000 Monsonia
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs or suffrutices. Leaves alternate or opposite, simple or sometimes lobed or dissected. Flowers actinomorphic, in a 1-3-flowered pseudumbel. Sepals and petals 5. Stamens 15, all fertile, in 5 bundles of 3 filaments each, the central filament of each triad the longer. Extrastaminal glands present, 5, adnate to the base of the longer central filaments. Ovary 5-locular. Beak of mericarp persistent, helically twisting when ripe, plumose on the inside. Derivation of name: Named after Lady Anne Monson, great granddaughter of Charles II of England, who collected plants in India and South Africa with Thunberg and Masson. Worldwide: 25 species in Africa, Madagascar and SW Asia Mozambique: 3 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angustifolia E. Mey. ex A. Rich. | GI,M | Description, Image |
| glauca Knuth | Description, Image | |
| senegalensis Guill. & Perr. | Description, Image |
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Flora of Botswana: MonsoniaFlora of Burundi: Monsonia
Flora of Caprivi: Monsonia
Flora of Zambia: Monsonia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Monsonia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): MonsoniaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Monsonia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Monsonia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Monsonia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Monsonia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Monsonia
JSTOR Plant Science: Monsonia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Monsonia
Plants of the World Online: Monsonia
Tropicos: Monsonia
Wikipedia: Monsonia
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