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4343.000 Cleistanthus
Description of the genus
Monoecious, rarely dioecious, trees and shrubs. Indumentum simple. Leaves simple, alternate. Inflorescences axillary, fasiculate or in false racemes. Male flowers: sepals 5, valvate; petals 5, minute; disk ring- or cup-shaped; stamens 5; pistillode present. Female flowers: sepals 5, valvate; petals 5, minute; disk enveloping the ovary; ovary (2-)3(-4)-locular; styles 3. Fruit (2-)3(-4)-lobed, splitting into the same number of 2-valved cocci. Seeds 2 per coccus. Worldwide: c. 140 species in the Old World tropics. Mozambique: 4 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| polystachyus Hook. f. ex Planch. subsp. milleri (Dunkley) Radcl.-Sm. | N,Z,MS | |
| schlechteri (Pax) Hutch.[Agg] | N,Z,T,MS,M | |
| schlechteri (Pax) Hutch. var. schlechteri | N,Z,MS,M | Description, Image |
| schlechteri (Pax) Hutch. var. pubescens (Hutch.) J. Léonard | N,T,MS | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Cleistanthus:
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Flora of Burundi: CleistanthusFlora of Malawi: Cleistanthus
Flora of Zambia: Cleistanthus
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cleistanthus
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CleistanthusBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cleistanthus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cleistanthus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cleistanthus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cleistanthus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cleistanthus
JSTOR Plant Science: Cleistanthus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cleistanthus
Plants of the World Online: Cleistanthus
Tropicos: Cleistanthus
Wikipedia: Cleistanthus
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