4354.000 Tannodia Baill.

Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996) Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4)

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs. Indumentum simple. Leaves alternate, petiolate, stipulate, simple, entire or subentire, palminerved. Inflorescences terminal, interruptedly racemose; bracts 1–several-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels jointed; calyx closed in bud, later splitting into 2–5 valvate lobes; petals 4–5, free, imbricate; disk glands 4–5, free, alternating with the petals. Female flowers: pedicels jointed; sepals 4–5, ± free, ± equal, imbricate; petals 4–5, larger than the sepals, free, imbricate; ovary 3-locular, with 1 ovule per loculus. Fruit trilobate-subglobose, dehiscing septicidally into 3 bivalved cocci; endocarp thinly woody. Seeds with crustaceous testa; cotyledons broad, flat.

Worldwide: 4 species in Africa, Madagascar and the Comoros Islands.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
swynnertonii (S. Moore) Prain	MS	Description, Image

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