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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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Flora of Mozambique: Cordia
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Flora of Zambia: cultivated Cordia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cordia
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): CordiaFlora Zambesiaca web site: Cordia
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Cordia
Wikipedia: Cordia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Cordia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Cordia
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