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4448.000 Clutia
Description of the genus
Dioecious, less often monoecious, trees, shrubs or herbs. Indumentum simple. Leaves simple, alternate, entire. Flowers in axillary fascicles; female flowers sometimes solitary. Male flowers: pedicels jointed; sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, free, clawed; disk with glands in 1-3 series on the sepals, petals and receptacle; stamens 5; pistillode present. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male but persistent and hardening in fruit; ovary 3-locular with 1 ovule per loculus; styles 3. Fruit splitting into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds shiny, black. Worldwide: 70 species, mostly in Africa, including 2 in Arabia. Mozambique: 11 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abyssinica Jaub. & Spach. var. abyssinica | N,Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| abyssinica Jaub. & Spach. var. pedicellaris (Pax) Pax | Z,T | Description |
| abyssinica Jaub. & Spach.[Agg] | N,Z,T,MS | |
| angustifolia Knauf ex Pax | T | |
| hirsuta E. Mey. ex Sond. | MS | Description, Image |
| monticola S. Moore var. monticola | MS | |
| paxii Knauf ex Pax | MS | Description, Image |
| pulchella L. var. obtusata Sond. | M | |
| robusta Pax | ||
| sessilifolia Radcl.-Sm.[NrEnd][VU] | MS | Description, Image |
| swynnertonii S. Moore | MS | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Clutia:
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Flora of Botswana: ClutiaFlora of Malawi: Clutia
Flora of Zambia: Clutia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Clutia
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): ClutiaFlora Zambesiaca web site: Clutia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Clutia
Wikipedia: Clutia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Clutia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Clutia
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