2380.000 Phytolacca L.

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs or herbs. Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed racemes (in ours). Flowers bisexual or unisexual. Sepals free, subequal, sometimes reflexed. Fruit of 4-many free or connate carpels, fleshy, ± spherical.

Derivation of name: phyton - plant, lakha - red dye (Persian); referring to the dye produced by the fruits.

Worldwide: 25 species, in tropical and warm areas

Mozambique: 2 taxa.

Phytolacca octandra

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

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
dodecandra L'Hér.N,Z,T,MS,GIDescription, Image
octandra L.MS,MDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Phytolacca:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Phytolacca
Flora of Malawi: Phytolacca
Flora of Zambia: Phytolacca
Flora of Zimbabwe: Phytolacca
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Phytolacca

External websites:

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

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: Phytolacca.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=547, retrieved 29 March 2023

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