7420.000 Cestrum L.

Description of the genus

Unarmed shrubs. Leaves simple and entire, alternate. Flowers in axillary or terminal clusters. Calyx 5(-6)-toothed, not enlarging in fruit. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped (in ours) with 5(-6) reflexed lobes, c.1/4 as along as tube. Stamens arising at base of corolla tube. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a berry.

Worldwide: 175 species in tropical America

Cestrum aurantiacum

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SpeciesLinks to mapsFZ divisionsContent
aurantiacum Lindl.C,EDescription, Image
laevigatum Schltdl.W

Other sources of information about Cestrum:

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

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

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Cestrum.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1253, retrieved 19 May 2013

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