3990.000 Zanthoxylum L.

FAGARA L.

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, armed with prickles. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. Leaflets in (1-)2-12(or more) pairs, opposite or alternate, sessile or petiolulate, usually ± asymmetric. Inflorescence of panicles or of racemes borne at the base of new branches below the leaves. Flowers unisexual by abortion. Fruit a dehiscent, spherical or subspherical, glandular-foveolate, 1-seeded follicle. Seed ± spherical, black, shiny.

Worldwide: c. 250 species in America, Africa and Asia

Mozambique: 11 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
capense (Thunb.) Harv.	GI,M	Description, Image
chalybeum Engl. var. chalybeum		Image
davyi (I. Verd.) P.G. Waterman
delagoense P.G. Waterman[End]	GI,M	Description, Image
gilletii (De Wild.) P.G. Waterman		Image
holtzianum (Engl.) P.G. Waterman	N,MS (other?)	Description
humile (E.A. Bruce) P.G. Waterman	GI,M
leprieurii Guill. & Perr.	T,MS	Description, Image
lindense (Engl.) Kokwaro[NrEnd][VU]	N
sp. A [End]	N
tenuipedicellatum (Kokwaro) Vollesen[NrEnd]	N

Other sources of information about Zanthoxylum:

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Flora of Botswana: Zanthoxylum
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Zanthoxylum
Flora of Malawi: Zanthoxylum
Flora of Zambia: Zanthoxylum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Zanthoxylum

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Zanthoxylum
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Zanthoxylum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Zanthoxylum
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iNaturalist: Zanthoxylum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Zanthoxylum
JSTOR Plant Science: Zanthoxylum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Zanthoxylum
Plants of the World Online: Zanthoxylum
Tropicos: Zanthoxylum
Wikipedia: Zanthoxylum