4416.000 Tragia L.

Description of the genus

Erect or scrambling or twining, monoecious (rarely dioecious) perennial herbs or shrubs, with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, often cordate. Flowers in racemes, usually mostly male with 1-2 females at the base. Bracts conspicuous, persistent. Petals 0. Male flowers with 3 sepals and 3 stamens. Female flowers with 3 or 6 pinnate or palmate sepals, becoming enlarged in fruit. Ovary 3-locular.

Worldwide: 100 species in tropical and warm areas

Tragia mazoensis

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SpeciesLinks to mapsFZ divisionsContent
benthamii BakerN,S
brevipes PaxN,WDescription, Image
brevipes-benthamii-okanyu intermediatesN,S
dioica Sond.S
furialis BojerEDescription, Image
gardneri PrainW,CDescription, Image
incisifolia PrainE,S
kirkiana Müll. Arg.N,W,C,SDescription, Image
mazoensis Radcl.-Sm.[End][DD]NDescription, Image
okanyua PaxN,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
plukenetii Radcl.-Sm.E
prionoides Radcl.-Sm.W,C,E,S
rhodesiae PaxN,C
tenuifolia Benth.E

Other sources of information about Tragia:

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

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

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P. (2013). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Tragia.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=858, retrieved 24 May 2013

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