4464.000 Suregada Roxb. ex Rottler

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs; latex not evident. Stipules small, connate, leaving annular scars at nodes. Leaves alternate, short-petiolate; lamina simple; margins entire or rarely sparsely serrulate. Inflorescence of glomerules or cymes, leaf-opposed. Sepals 5 or 6, free, imbricate, sometimes glandular abaxially; petals absent. Fruit a capsule or sometimes indehiscent and drupe-like. Seeds covered by a pale sarcotesta; endosperm present; cotyledon broad and flat.

Worldwide: 35 species in Africa, Asia, and Oceania.

Zimbabwe: 2 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
procera (Prain) Croizat[VU]E,S
zanzibariensis Baill.[VU]SDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Suregada:

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Flora of Malawi: Suregada
Flora of Mozambique: Suregada
Flora of Zambia: Suregada

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Suregada
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Suregada
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Suregada
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Suregada
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Suregada
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Suregada
JSTOR Plant Science: Suregada
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Suregada
Plants of the World Online: Suregada
Tropicos: Suregada
Wikipedia: Suregada

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Suregada.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=869, retrieved 28 March 2024

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