8329.000 Hamelia Jacq.

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Description of the genus

Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or, usually in our species, in whorls of 3; interpetiolar stipules present. Flowers in terminal cymes. calyx with 5 short erect lobes. Corolla tubular, lobes very short. Stamens 5; inserted near base of corolla-tube. Ovary 5-locular. Fruit a small spherical to ovoid berry; seeds numerous, minute.

Derivation of name: Named after Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau, a French botanist, 1700-1781.

Worldwide: 16 species in tropical America

Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon.

Hamelia patens

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Other sources of information about Hamelia:

Our websites:

Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Hamelia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Hamelia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Hamelia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Hamelia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Hamelia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Hamelia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Hamelia
JSTOR Plant Science: Hamelia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Hamelia
Plants of the World Online: Hamelia
Tropicos: Hamelia
Wikipedia: Hamelia

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Cultivated plants: genus page: Hamelia.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1171, retrieved 28 March 2024

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