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3947.000 Hugonia
Description of the genus
Trees, shrubs or lianes, often bearing tendrils in subopposite pairs (see image 2). Stipules pinnatifid or palmatifid. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Flowers solitary or paired or in few-flowered cymes borne in the leaf axils. Sepals 5, unequal. Petals 5, free, yellow, with a short claw. Stamens 10, all fertile, the filaments united at the base to form a cup. Ovary with 2-5 fertile loculi alternating with an equal number of sterile loculi; styles 2-5. Fruit a drupe. Seeds (1-)3-5. Worldwide: 32 species in the Old World tropics. Mozambique: 3 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| elliptica N. Robson[End] | Z | |
| grandiflora N. Robson[NrEnd] | N | |
| orientalis Engl. | N,Z,T,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Hugonia:
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Flora of Burundi: HugoniaFlora of the DRC: Hugonia
Flora of Malawi: Hugonia
Flora of Rwanda: Hugonia
Flora of Zambia: Hugonia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Hugonia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): HugoniaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Hugonia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Hugonia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Hugonia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Hugonia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Hugonia
JSTOR Plant Science: Hugonia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Hugonia
Plants of the World Online: Hugonia
Tropicos: Hugonia
Wikipedia: Hugonia
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