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4309.000 Drypetes
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. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| arguta (Müll. Arg.) Hutch. | Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| gerrardii Hutch. var. gerrardii | Z,MS | Description, Image |
| gerrardii Hutch. var. angustifolia Radcl.-Sm.[End] | MS | |
| gerrardii Hutch. var. grandifolia Radcl. Sm. | Description | |
| mossambicensis Hutch. | N,Z,T,GI,M | Description, Image |
| natalensis (Harv.) Hutch. var. natalensis | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| reticulata Pax | N,Z,MS,M | Description, Image |
| sclerophylla Mildbr. | N |
Other sources of information about Drypetes:
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Flora of Malawi: DrypetesFlora of Zambia: Drypetes
Flora of Zimbabwe: Drypetes
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Drypetes
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): DrypetesFlora Zambesiaca web site: Drypetes
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Drypetes
Wikipedia: Drypetes
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Drypetes
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Drypetes
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