4367.000 Micrococca Benth.

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

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs or shrubs, with stipules. Indumentum simple. Leaves alternate (sometimes opposite in lowermost), petiolate, simple, crenate or serrate, membranous, penninerved, often purplish-tinged. Inflorescences axillary, spicate or racemose with the flowers in bracteate clusters along the axis, usually the terminal flower female. Male flowers pedicellate; calyx closed in bud, later splitting into 3(-4) valvate lobes; petals absent; disk of 3–30 free interstaminal glands or absent. Female flowers pedicellate; sepals 3–5, imbricate; petals absent; disk glands 2–6; ovary 2–4-locular, with 1 ovule per loculus. Fruit 2–4-coccous, or 1-coccous by abortion, dehiscent; pericarp thin; endocarp crustaceous. Seeds subglobose, thinly arillate; testa crustaceous; endosperm fleshy.

Worldwide: 12 species in the Old World tropics

Mozambique: 3 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
capensis (Baill.) Prain	M
mercurialis (L.) Benth.	N,MS	Description, Image
scariosa Prain	MS

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