4500.000 Synadenium
Carter, S. & Leach, L.C. (2001) Euphorbiaceae: subfamily Euphorbioideae: tribe Euphorbieae Flora Zambesiaca 9(5)
Description of the genus
Shrubs or trees with copious milky latex. Branches cylindric, ± fleshy. Stipules consisting of small conspicuous dark brown glands. Leaves alternate, fleshy. Inflorescence composed of sessile cyathia in dichotomously branching axillary cymes, usually crowded into pseudumbels at the branch apices; bracts paired, persistent. Cyathium with entire glandular rim and 5 fringed lobes. Male flowers in 5 groups, bracteolate. Female flower shortly stalked, elongating in fruit; ovary 3-locular; styles 3 with 2-fid stigmas. Fruit a 3-lobed, dehiscent, capsule. Seeds with a sessile, often rudimentary, caruncle. Worldwide: 14 species in east and southern tropical Africa Mozambique: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| cameronii N.E. Br. | T,MS | Description, Image |
| cupulare (Boiss.) Wheeler | GI | |
| grantii Hook. f. | N? | |
| halipedicola L.C. Leach [End] | MS | |
| kirkii N.E. Br. | Z,T,MS | Description, Image |
| pereskiifolium (Houllet ex Baill.) Guillaumin | N |
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