7153.000 Priva Adans.

Description of the genus

Erect or ascending subscabrid perennial herbs. Leaves opposite or subopposite, simple. Inflorescence spike-like. Bracts small. Calyx tubular, 5-ribbed, with 4-5 mostly short teeth, persistent, enlarging and covering the fruit, usually contracted and ± beaked at the mouth. Corolla limb ± 2-lipped, with 5 unequal lobes. Fertile stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary 4-locular. Fruit eventually splitting into 2 subspherical cocci.

Worldwide: 20 species in tropical and warm zones

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
africana MoldenkeM
flabelliformis (Moldenke) R. Fern.Z,MS,GI,MDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Priva:

Flora of Zimbabwe: Priva
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Priva
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Priva
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Priva
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Priva
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Priva

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Stefaan Dondeyne 2007-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Dondeyne, S. (2013). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Priva.
http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1207, retrieved 19 May 2013

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