4309.000 Drypetes Vahl

Description of the genus

Dioecious trees or shrubs with simple indumentum. Latex 0. Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers in fascicles, borne in axils of leaves or on the old wood. Male flowers: calyx closed in bud, later with 4-5 imbricate sepals; petals 0; pistillode minute or 0; disk intrastaminal; stamens 4-many. Female flowers like the male but sepals caducous; ovary 1-2-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Fruit drupe-like, indehiscent. Seed 1 per loculus.

Worldwide: c. 200 species in the tropics, E Asia and southern Africa

Mozambique: 8 taxa.

Drypetes arguta

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
arguta (Müll. Arg.) Hutch.Z,MS,GI,MDescription, Image
gerrardii Hutch. var. gerrardii Z,MSDescription, Image
gerrardii Hutch. var. angustifolia Radcl.-Sm.[End]MS
gerrardii Hutch. var. grandifolia Radcl. Sm.Description
mossambicensis Hutch.N,Z,T,GI,MDescription, Image
natalensis (Harv.) Hutch. var. natalensis N,Z,MS,GI,MDescription, Image
reticulata PaxN,Z,MS,MDescription, Image
sclerophylla Mildbr.N

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Flora of Malawi: Drypetes
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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Drypetes

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

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: Drypetes.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=835, retrieved 22 March 2023

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