3720.010 Craibia Harms & Dunn

Description of the genus

Shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate with up to 11 alternate leaflets; petiolules unwrinkled; leaflets leathery, acuminate. Inflorescence a terminal raceme; bracts and bracteoles caducous. Calyx lobes broad, much shorter than the tube. Corolla white, pink or mauve; wings and claw with well-marked auricles. Pod shortly stipitate, flat, markedly asymmetric, glabrous or glabrescent, beaked, dehiscing into thin stiff woody twisted valves. Seeds with a short white cup-shaped aril.

Worldwide: 10 species in tropical Africa

Craibia brevicaudata subsp. baptistarum

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brevicaudata (Vatke) Dunn subsp. baptistarum (Büttner) J.B. GillettC,EDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Craibia:

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

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

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Craibia.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=731, retrieved 18 May 2013

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