3573.000 Cordyla Lour.

Description of the genus

Trees. Stipules small, caducous. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets alternate, with numerous translucent dots or streaks. Flowers in axillary racemes. Calyx subspherical, entire before dehiscence; disk 0. Receptacle campanulate. Petals 0. Stamens numerous (>20), crowded in several rows around the top of the receptacle, shortly connate at base. Pod indehiscent.

Worldwide: 5 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

Cordyla africana

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
africana Lour.N,Z,T,MS,GI,MDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Cordyla:

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Flora of Malawi: Cordyla
Flora of Zambia: Cordyla
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cordyla

External websites:

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

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: Cordyla.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=703, retrieved 27 March 2023

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