Nectaropetalum Engl.

Robson, N.K.B. (1963) Erythroxylaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1)

Description of the genus

Shrubs or small trees. Young shoots terete or ± compressed. Leaves petiolate, alternate, simple, entire, coriaceous, penninerved, with densely reticulate tertiary venation; stipules intrapetiolar, usually completely united, deciduous or caducous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered fascicles, heterostylic. Sepals (4) 5, valvate, connate at the base, ± coriaceous. Petals (4) 5, white, free, unguiculate, deciduous; nectary appendage small (more rarely absent). Ovary 2-locular. Fruit probably drupaceous.

Worldwide: 6 species, 5 from Kenya to the Cape, 1 in Congo.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
carvalhoi Engl.[NrEnd]	N

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Nectaropetalum
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