2577.000 Tiliacora Colebr.

Description of the genus

Robust lianes. Leaves simple, entire, not peltate. Male inflorescences either of small axillary cymes borne on peduncles or of 3-9-flowered cymes arranged in false racemes, sometimes arising from the old stems. Male flowers: sepals 6-12, thickly textured, glabrous or nearly so, the outer bract-like, the inner much larger; petals 3-6. Female flowers: carpels 6-30. Fruit surface glabrescent, smooth or rugose.

Worldwide: 22 species in the tropics of the Old World

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Tiliacora funifera

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
funifera (Miers) Oliv.N,Z,MS,GIDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Tiliacora:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Tiliacora
Flora of Zambia: Tiliacora
Flora of Zimbabwe: Tiliacora

External websites:

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

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: Tiliacora.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=588, retrieved 23 March 2023

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