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Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Evergreen trees, rarely shrubs. Leaves simple, rarely 3-5 lobed, petiolate. Inflorescence axillary, usually consisting of long-stalked panicles of 3-flowered cymes; middle flower sessile, lateral flowers stalked. Fruit a drupe, enclosed in fused or free bracts. Derivation of name: after Francisco Hernandez de Toledo (1514-1587), physician to Philip II of Spain and botanist, explorer and collector in South America. Worldwide: 24 species, pantropical with 1 species occasionally on the east coast of Africa. Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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