8569.000 Corallocarpus Welw. ex Hook. f.

Description of the genus

Climbing, or rarely prostrate, monoecious herbs. Leaves simple. Tendrils simple. Flowers yellowish. Male flowers in subsessile to pedunculate congested axillary clusters; corolla lobes small, (0.7 - 2 mm long), shortly united below; stamens 5. Female flowers solitary or clustered, axillary; ovary smooth, developing a cup-shaped base; perianth as in male flowers; stigma 2(-3)-lobed. Fruits small, red, often beaked, circumscissile near the persistent base.

Worldwide: 13 species in tropical Africa, Madagascar and India

Mozambique: 2 taxa.

Corallocarpus boehmii

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
bainesii (Hook. f.) A. MeeuseT,MS,MDescription, Image
poissonii Cogn.N

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Flora of Botswana: Corallocarpus
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Flora of Malawi: Corallocarpus
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ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Corallocarpus
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Corallocarpus
Wikipedia: Corallocarpus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Corallocarpus
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Corallocarpus

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: Corallocarpus.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1437, retrieved 28 March 2023

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