8285.020 Didymosalpinx Keay

Description of the genus

Erect or scrambling glabrous shrubs with supra-axillary spiny modified lateral branchlets. Stipules shortly connate at base. Leaves opposite. Flowers solitary, supra-axillary, large, bisexual, 5-merous. Calyx tube cylindric; lobes small. Corolla trumpet-shaped, longitudinally ribbed; lobes contorted to the left. Ovary 1-locular. Style club-shaped. Fruit ± thin-walled with dark green longitudinal ribs and crowned by the persistent calyx. Seeds lenticular, the coat fibrous with a ± fingerprint-like pattern.

Worldwide: 4 closely-related species in tropical Africa

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

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Flora of Mozambique: Didymosalpinx
Flora of Zimbabwe: Didymosalpinx

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Didymosalpinx
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Didymosalpinx
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Didymosalpinx
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Didymosalpinx
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iNaturalist: Didymosalpinx
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Didymosalpinx
JSTOR Plant Science: Didymosalpinx
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Didymosalpinx
Plants of the World Online: Didymosalpinx
Tropicos: Didymosalpinx
Wikipedia: Didymosalpinx

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Didymosalpinx.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1382, retrieved 29 March 2024

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