4464.000 Suregada Roxb. ex Rottler

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs; latex not evident. Stipules small, connate, leaving annular scars at nodes. Leaves alternate, short-petiolate; lamina simple; margins entire or rarely sparsely serrulate. Inflorescence of glomerules or cymes, leaf-opposed. Sepals 5 or 6, free, imbricate, sometimes glandular abaxially; petals absent. Fruit a capsule or sometimes indehiscent and drupe-like. Seeds covered by a pale sarcotesta; endosperm present; cotyledon broad and flat.

Worldwide: 35 species in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Mozambique: 3 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
africana (Sond.) Kuntze	M
procera (Prain) Croizat	MS
zanzibariensis Baill.	N,Z,MS,GI,M	Description, Image

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