4309.000 Drypetes Vahl

Description of the genus

Dioecious trees or shrubs with simple indumentum. Latex 0. Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers in fascicles, borne in axils of leaves or on the old wood. Male flowers: calyx closed in bud, later with 4-5 imbricate sepals; petals 0; pistillode minute or 0; disk intrastaminal; stamens 4-many. Female flowers like the male but sepals caducous; ovary 1-2-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Fruit drupe-like, indehiscent. Seed 1 per loculus.

Worldwide: c. 200 species in the tropics, E Asia and southern Africa

Mozambique: 8 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
arguta (Müll. Arg.) Hutch.	Z,MS,GI,M	Description, Image
gerrardii Hutch. var. gerrardii	Z,MS	Description, Image
gerrardii Hutch. var. angustifolia Radcl.-Sm.[End]	MS
gerrardii Hutch. var. grandifolia Radcl. Sm.		Description
mossambicensis Hutch.	N,Z,T,GI,M	Description, Image
natalensis (Harv.) Hutch. var. natalensis	N,Z,MS,GI,M	Description, Image
reticulata Pax	N,Z,MS,M	Description, Image
sclerophylla Mildbr.	N

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Flora of Burundi: Drypetes
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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Drypetes

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Drypetes
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Drypetes
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Tropicos: Drypetes
Wikipedia: Drypetes