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4661.000 Hippocratea
APODOSTIGMA R. Wilczek
ELACHYPTERA A.C. Sm.
LOESENERIELLA A.C. Sm.
PRISTIMERA Miers
REISSANTIA N. Hallé
SIMIRESTIS N. Hallé
Description of the genus
Lianes or climbing shrubs, less often small trees. Stipules free or ± united. Inflorescence of various forms, axillary. Bracts persistent. Flowers bisexual. Sepals (4-)5. Petals (4-)5(-6), green to white or yellow. Leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate. Disk present, varying in shape. Stamens (2-)3(-4). Ovary superior, 3-locular. Stigmas 3. Fruit of 3 capsular, flattened mericarps, united at the base. Seeds usually winged. Worldwide: 100 spp. in the tropics. |
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Links to taxa (10) View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| africana (Willd.) Loes. var. richardiana (Cambess.) N. Robson | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NWES | Description, Image |
| buchananii Loes. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NWES | Description, Image |
| crenata (Klotzsch) Loes. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NES | Description, Image |
| goetzei Loes.[VU] | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | |
| indica Willd. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NWCES | |
| longipetiolata Oliv. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NWCES | |
| pallens Planch. ex Oliv.[LR-nt] | Altitude Rainfall Geology | E | |
| parviflora N.E. Br. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NW | |
| parvifolia Oliv. | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NWCS | Description, Image |
| volkensii Loes.[LR-lc] | Altitude Rainfall Geology | NE |
Other sources of information about Hippocratea:
Flora of Mozambique: HippocrateaePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Hippocratea
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Hippocratea
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Hippocratea
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Hippocratea
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Hippocratea
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