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5434.000 Peddiea
Description of the genus
Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, glabrous. Flowers terminal, in umbels (in ours) , 4-5-merous. Calyx-tube cylindric. Petals 0 Stamens twice as many as the calyx lobes. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a drupe. Derivation of name: named after Lt-Col John Peddie, plant collector in the Eastern Cape in the 1830s Worldwide: 12 species in the tropics and S Africa |
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Other sources of information about Peddiea:
Flora of Mozambique: PeddieaePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Peddiea
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Peddiea
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Peddiea
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Peddiea
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Peddiea
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