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5112.000 Ochna
Description of the genus
Trees or shrubs, usually completely glabrous. Bark without yellow pigment beneath. Stipules entire or fringed or 2-fid, not striate, deciduous. Leaves petiolate; midrib raised on both the upper and lower leaf surfaces. Inflorescences paniculate to racemose or umbellate or reduced to a solitary flower, terminal or terminating short axillary shoots. Flowering often spectacular and of short duration. Sepals green or yellow (pink or white in O. arenaria) in flower, persistent, enlarging and becoming red in fruit. Petals yellow or rarely orange to white, deciduous. Stamens (14-)20-many. Carpels (3-)5-15. Worldwide: 86 species in the Old World tropics Mozambique: 22 taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| angustata N. Robson[End] | N,Z,MS | |
| arborea Burch. ex DC. var. oconnorii (E. Phillips) Du Toit | MS | Description, Image |
| arborea Burch. ex DC. var. arborea | M | |
| arenaria De Wild. & T. Durand | Description, Image | |
| atropurpurea DC. | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
| barbosae N. Robson | GI,M | Image |
| beirensis N. Robson[End] | MS | |
| confusa Burtt Davy & Greenway | MS | |
| dolicharthros F.M. Crawford & I. Darbysh.[End][EN] | N | Description |
| gambleoides N. Robson | N,MS | Description, Image |
| holstii Engl. | Z,MS | Description, Image |
| inermis (Forssk.) Schweinf. ex Penz. | M | Description, Image |
| kirkii Oliv. | N,Z | |
| leptoclada Oliv. | N,Z,T,M | Image |
| macrocalyx Oliv. | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
| natalitia (Meisn.) Walp. | MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| ovata F. Hoffm. | N | |
| polyneura Gilg | N,T,MS | |
| pulchra Hook. subsp. pulchra | MS | Description, Image |
| richardsiae N. Robson | Description, Image | |
| rovumensis Gilg | N,MS | |
| schweinfurthiana F. Hoffm. | N,Z,MS | Description, Image |
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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Ochna
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): OchnaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ochna
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ochna
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iNaturalist: Ochna
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ochna
JSTOR Plant Science: Ochna
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ochna
Plants of the World Online: Ochna
Tropicos: Ochna
Wikipedia: Ochna
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