3939.000 Averrhoa L.

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

Description of the genus

Evergreen trees. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate; leaflets several to many, alternate or subopposite, entire. Flowers small, borne in short clusters, sometimes on the branches or beneath the leaves. Sepals 5. Petals 5, white, red or purple. Stamens 10. Fruit pendulous, fleshy, lobed or furrowed longitudinally.

Derivation of name: after Averrhoes, 1149-1217, Arabian physician.

Worldwide: 2 species from tropical Asia

Mozambique: 1 cultivated taxon.

Averrhoa carambola

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carambola L.Description, Image

Other sources of information about Averrhoa:

External websites:

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

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: Averrhoa.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1853, retrieved 29 March 2024

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