5918.000 Sanicula L.

Description of the genus

Erect or decumbent herbs. Leaves (in ours) with long petioles, ternate to palmate. Inflorescence of irregular compound umbels with few, unequal rays. Partial umbels composed of bisexual and male flowers. Fruit ovoid, with hooked spines.

Worldwide: 39 species, ± cosmopolitan.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Sanicula elata

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

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
elata Buch.-Ham. ex D.DonMSDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Sanicula:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Sanicula
Flora of Zambia: Sanicula
Flora of Zimbabwe: Sanicula

External websites:

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

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Sanicula.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1035, retrieved 31 March 2023

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