6978.000 Seddera Hochst.

Description of the genus

Prostrate to erect suffrutices or shrubs, never climbing. Leaves small, entire, usually with medifixed hairs. Flowers 5-merous, axillary, solitary or aggregated into few-flowered clusters or pedunculate cymes. Sepals subequal or outer ones larger. Corolla small, funnel-shaped; limb shallowly lobed; mid-petaline areas hairy. Ovary 2-locular, 4-ovulate. Styles 2, quite or almost separate, not forked. Capsule 4-valved. Seeds glabrous.

Worldwide: 20 species, mainly African, extending to Arabia and India

Seddera suffruticosa var. suffruticosa

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SpeciesLinks to mapsFZ divisionsContent
capensis (E.Mey. ex Choisy) Hallier f.W,C
suffruticosa (Schinz) Hallier f. var. suffruticosa N,W,E,SDescription, Image
suffruticosa (Schinz) Hallier f. var. hirsutissima Hallier f.W,SDescription

Other sources of information about Seddera:

Flora of Mozambique: Seddera
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Seddera
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Seddera
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Seddera
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Seddera
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Seddera

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Seddera.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1177, retrieved 24 May 2013

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