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8562.000 Mukia
Description of the genus
Climbing or prostrate, monoecious, herbs. Leaves simple, petiolate. Tendrils simple. Flowers very small. Male flowers in sessile fascicles, shortly pedicellate. Corolla lobes 5, united below. Stamens 3, two 2-thecous, one single 1-thecous. Female flowers also in sessile fascicles, ± sessile or shortly pedicellate; staminodes 3, stigma 3-lobed. Fruit spherical (in ours), smooth, red, usually glabrous when mature. Worldwide: 4 species in the Old World tropics Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| maderaspatana (L.) M. Roem. | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Mukia:
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Flora of Botswana: MukiaFlora of Caprivi: Mukia
Flora of Malawi: Mukia
Flora of Mozambique: Mukia
Flora of Zambia: Mukia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): MukiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Mukia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Mukia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Mukia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Mukia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Mukia
JSTOR Plant Science: Mukia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Mukia
Plants of the World Online: Mukia
Tropicos: Mukia
Wikipedia: Mukia
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