Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
7038.000 Cordia
Description of the genus
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite or opposite. Cymes arranged in lax or dense panicles, ebracteate, terminal or axillary. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, actinomorphic. Calyx tubular or ± campanulate, usually splitting irregularly, 3-5-toothed, usually accrescent and cup-shaped in fruit. Corolla 4-5(-7)-lobed, funnel-shaped to salver-shaped, white or yellowish. Ovary 4-locular (abortive in male flowers). Style terminal, twice 2-fid with 4 slender or clavate, stigmas. Fruit drupaceous, partially or wholly surrounded by the enlarged persistent calyx. Derivation of name: after Valerius Cordus, 1515-1544, German physician and botanist. Worldwide: c.320 species, tropical. Zimbabwe: 5 cultivated taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| africana Lam. | Description, Image |
| alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken | |
| dichotoma G. Forst. | Description, Image |
| monoica Roxb. | Description, Image |
| myxa L. |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CordiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Cordia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Cordia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Cordia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Cordia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cordia
JSTOR Plant Science: Cordia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Cordia
Plants of the World Online: Cordia
Tropicos: Cordia
Wikipedia: Cordia