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8560.000 Oreosyce
Description of the genus
Small scandent herbs. Leaves simple, petiolate. Tendrils simple. Inflorescence consisting of few-flowered sessile fascicles, rarely solitary, pedicellate. Flowers small, yellow; receptacle-tube narrowly campanulate; lobes small, filiform; corolla-lobes 5, united near the base. Fruit ovoid, tuberculate or spiny, green or yellowish, dehiscent by expulsion of seeds from pedicel-scar. Seeds ovate in outline, compressed, with broad margins and depressed disk. Worldwide: 1 species in Africa and Madagascar. Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| africana Hook. f. | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Oreosyce:
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Flora of Botswana: OreosyceFlora of Malawi: Oreosyce
Flora of Zambia: Oreosyce
Flora of Zimbabwe: Oreosyce
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): OreosyceFlora Zambesiaca web site: Oreosyce
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Oreosyce
Wikipedia: Oreosyce
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Oreosyce
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Oreosyce
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