2696.000 Monanthotaxis Baill.

Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs or lianes. Branches with prominent lenticels, red or blackish. Inflorescences of few-flowered fascicles or solitary flowers. Flowers bisexual or unisexual; bracteoles present, small, ovate-oblong. Sepals 3. Petals (4-)6, in 1-2 whorls; inner shorter than outer. Stamens 6-many in 1-several whorls. Carpels few-many, free. Fruit-segments cylindric, indehiscent, usually fleshy and constricted between the 1-8-seeds.

Worldwide: 56 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar

Mozambique: 7 taxa.

Monanthotaxis trichocarpa

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

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
buchananii (Engl.) Verdc.N,Z,T,MSDescription, Image
caffra (Sond.) Verdc.GI,MImage
chasei (N. Robson) Verdc.MSDescription, Image
maputensis P.H. Hoekstra[NrEnd]GI,M
suffruticosa P.H. Hoekstra[NrEnd][EN]N
trichantha (Diels) Verdc.[NrEnd][VU]NImage
trichocarpa (Engl. & Diels) Verdc.Z,MSDescription, Image

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Flora of Malawi: Monanthotaxis
Flora of Zambia: Monanthotaxis
Flora of Zimbabwe: Monanthotaxis

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

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: Monanthotaxis.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=597, retrieved 26 March 2023

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