4076.000 Vepris Comm. ex A. Juss.

DIPHASIOPSIS Mendonça

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, without prickles. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite (in V. bachmannii), 1- or 3-5-foliolate. Inflorescences of axillary and terminal racemes, panicles or clustered cymes. Flowers usually unisexual by abortion, (2-)4(-5)-merous. Sepals united to form a cup-shaped (3-)4-5-lobed calyx. Petals (3-)4, oblong. Male flowers: stamens 4-5 or (6-)8. Female flowers: ovary 1-2-4-locular, smooth. Fruit drupaceous, smooth, usually 1-2-4-seeded or sometimes woody and verrucose (in V. bremekampii).

Worldwide: 90 species in tropical and South Africa, Mascarenes and India.

Mozambique: 15 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
allenii I. Verd.[NrEnd?]	N
bachmannii (Engl.) Mziray	T,MS	Description, Image
bremekampii (I.Verd.) Mziray	GI,M	Description, Image
carringtoniana Mendonça[NrEnd]	MS,GI,M	Image
drummondii Mendonça[NrEnd][VU]	MS	Description
gerrardii (I.Verd.) E.J.D.Schmidt	M
lanceolata (Lam.) G.Don	Z,MS,GI,M	Description, Image
macedoi (Exell & Mendonça) Mziray[End]	N
myrei (Exell & Mendonça) Mziray[NrEnd]	MS,GI
nobilis (Delile) Mziray	MS (other?)	Description, Image
reflexa I. Verd.	MS,GI,M	Description, Image
rogersii (Mendonça) Mziray	T
sansibarensis (Engl.) Mziray	N
stolzii I. Verd.	Z
trichocarpa (Engl.) Mziray

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