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4545.000 Mangifera
Description of the genus
Trees. Leaves alternate, simple, petiolate with the petiole thickened at base, entire. Flowers in terminal or subterminal panicles, polygamous. Sepals (4-)5. Petals 4-5 with 1-5 prominent nerves, the central prolonged like a crest at the base of the internal face. Stamens 5-10, 1(-2) fertile, the others sterile. Ovary ± spherical, 1-locular. Style and stigma 1. Drupe (the mango fruit) ovoid, fleshy with a fibrous, woody endocarp. Seeds oblong-ovoid, flattened. Worldwide: c. 40-60 species in Indomalesia |
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Other sources of information about Mangifera:
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Mangifera pageePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Mangifera
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Mangifera
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Mangifera
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Mangifera
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Mangifera
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