Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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5080.000 Pterospermum
Description of the genus
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers axillary, solitary or borne in few-flowered cymes, 5-merous. Sepals linear, deciduous with the petals. Stamens 15, with long filaments, shorter than the 5 staminodes. Fruit a woody capsule. Seeds flattened, winged apically. Derivation of name: refers to the winged seeds. Worldwide: 25 species in tropical Asia Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| acerifolium (L.) Willd. | Image |
Other sources of information about Pterospermum:
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): PterospermumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Pterospermum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Pterospermum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Pterospermum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Pterospermum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pterospermum
JSTOR Plant Science: Pterospermum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pterospermum
Plants of the World Online: Pterospermum
Tropicos: Pterospermum
Wikipedia: Pterospermum
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