3128.000 Moringa Adans.

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

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs or herbs; deciduous, massive to slender, tuberous when young and sometimes as adults; bark and pith with gum canals. Stipules absent, but stalked glands present at base of petiole and leaflets. Leaves alternate, 2-4-imparipinnate; leaflets glabrous to puberulent, opposite; margin entire. Inflorescence of axillary panicles. Flowers white to yellow or red, actinomorphic to zygomorphic; sepals 5, often reflexed; petals 5, also often reflexed. Fruit a capsule, 3-12 ribbed, sometimes with elongated beak, dehiscent. Seeds 3-winged or wingless, without endosperm.

Worldwide: 12 species in India, Africa and Madagascar.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Moringa oleifera

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
oleifera Lour.MS,GI(other?)Description, Image

Other sources of information about Moringa:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Moringa
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Moringa
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Moringa
Flora of Zambia: Moringa
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Moringa
Flora of Zimbabwe: Moringa
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Moringa

External websites:

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

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: Moringa.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=636, retrieved 28 March 2024

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