Vincetoxicum Wolf

PLEUROSTELMA Baill.

SPHAEROCODON Benth.

TYLOPHORA R. Br.

Description of the genus

Vines or pyrophytic herbs; latex clear but sometimes becoming cloudy on exposure to air. Inflorescences extra-axillary, frequently lax and with many flower clusters along an extended axis, more rarely few-flowered. Corolla deeply five-lobed, normally adaxially with indumentum. Corolline corona absent. Gynostegial corona consisting of five discrete lobes adnate to the staminal column below the anther wings, or vestigial (V. cernuum). Anther connectives with apical appendages. Pollinia more or less horizontal, rarely pendant or erect, globose to ovoid or cylindrical, minute. Stylar head flat or capitate, but beaked in V. cernuum. Follicles usually occurring singly, smooth, wingless; seeds smooth, winged, comose.

Worldwide: 150 species in the Old Word tropics and Subtropics.

Mozambique: 7 taxa.

Vincetoxicum monticola

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
anomalum (N.E. Br.) Meve & Liede?Description, Image
apiculatum (K. Schum.) Meve & LiedeMS, MDescription, Image
caffrum (Meisn.) KuntzeZ
cernuum (Decne.) Meve & LiedeN
conspicuum (N.E. Br.) Meve & LiedeMS
monticola Goyder[NrEnd]MSDescription, Image
stenolobum (K. Schum.) Meve & LiedeN

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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Vincetoxicum
Flora of Malawi: Vincetoxicum
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Vincetoxicum

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Vincetoxicum
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Vincetoxicum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Vincetoxicum
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iNaturalist: Vincetoxicum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Vincetoxicum
JSTOR Plant Science: Vincetoxicum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Vincetoxicum
Plants of the World Online: Vincetoxicum
Tropicos: Vincetoxicum
Wikipedia: Vincetoxicum

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: Genus page: Vincetoxicum.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1165, retrieved 29 March 2024

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