Guettarda L.

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

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, bark greyish-brown. Stipules interpetiolar, deciduous or persistent. Leaves opposite or ternate. Inflorescence axillary, usually cymose or cincinnoid; calyx cupuliform, truncate or 2-9 dentate; corolla hypocrateriform to infundibuliform, lobes 4-9. Imbricate. Fruit drupaceous, hard, sub-globose to oblong, often angled, mesocarp fibrous, with a hard 4-9 chambered putamen.

Worldwide: Species 100, mainly in the Americas, with one widespread species in the Old World.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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External websites:

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

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: Guettarda.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2295, retrieved 28 March 2024

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