3530.000 Dialium L.

Description of the genus

Unarmed trees. Leaves imparipinnate or sometimes 3-foliolate. Inflorescence a many-flowered panicle. Flowers brown outside, greenish-white inside. Petals minute and inconspicuous. Stamens 5-10; filaments free. Sepals 5, fulvous or rusty-brown pubescent. Pod sessile, indehiscent, slightly flattened, densely pubescent..

Worldwide: 40 species, in the tropics, mostly Old World and mostly Africa.

Mozambique: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
holtzii Harms	N
schlechteri Harms[NrEnd]	GI,M

Other sources of information about Dialium:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Dialium
Flora of Caprivi: Dialium
Flora of the DRC: Dialium
Flora of Zambia: Dialium
Flora of Zimbabwe: Dialium
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Dialium

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Dialium
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Dialium
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Dialium
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Dialium
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Dialium
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Dialium
JSTOR Plant Science: Dialium
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Dialium
Plants of the World Online: Dialium
Tropicos: Dialium
Wikipedia: Dialium

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2007-25

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2025). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Dialium.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=692, retrieved 1 May 2025

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