4345.000 Bridelia Willd.

Description of the genus

Monoecious (rarely dioecious) shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, simple. Flowers small and axillary. Male flowers in many-flowered clusters, ± sessile: sepals and petals 5; filaments united in a column, free above. Female flowers in few-flowered clusters or solitary, sometimes pedicellate; styles 2. Ovary 2-locular (1-locular by abortion). Fruit a smooth berry or drupe, with (1-)2 pyrenes, generally indehiscent.

Worldwide: 60 species in the Old World tropics

Mozambique: 8 taxa.

Bridelia cathartica subsp. melanthesoides var. melanthesoides

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
atroviridis Müll. Arg.	MS	Description, Image
cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. cathartica	MS,GI,M	Image
cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard var. melanthesoides (Baill.) Radcl.-Sm.	N,Z,T,MS,GI,M	Image
cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard var. lingelsheimii (Gehrm.) Radcl.-Sm.	N,Z,T,MS
cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard[Agg]	N,Z,T,MS,GI,M	Description, Image
duvigneaudii J. Léonard	N,Z
micrantha (Hochst.) Baill.	N,Z,T,MS,M	Description, Image
mollis Hutch.	N,Z,T,MS,M	Description, Image

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