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8359.000 Pachystigma
Description of the genus
Herbs, suffrutices or small shrubs. Stipules connate, hairy within. Leaves opposite, rarely in whorls of 3. Flowers in axillary, often opposite, cymes or fascicles. Calyx with 5 linear to ovate lobes. Corolla green, greenish-yellow or -white; tube cylindric; lobes reflexed with a filiform appendage (in ours). Ovary 3-5-locular with 1 pendulous ovule per loculus. Fruit spherical or obovoid with 2-5 pyrenes, crowned with calyx limb. Worldwide: 10 species in warm regions of Africa |
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Other sources of information about Pachystigma:
Flora of Mozambique: PachystigmaePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Pachystigma
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Pachystigma
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Pachystigma
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Pachystigma
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Pachystigma
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