6583.000 Alstonia R. Br.

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Gledhill, D. (2002) The Names of Plants (3rd edn) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs; branches whorled, mostly 4 or 5 together; latex. Leaves whorled, rarely opposite; at end of branchlets; lamina glossy; numerous lateral veins. Inflorescence terminal; cymes usually 1-5 in thyrses, or compound umbels. Flowers white, yellow or pink; lobes basally connate, corolla salver-form, tube cylindric. Fruit paired follicles, free or connate. Seeds oblong or linear; apices long-bearded.

Derivation of name: Named for Professor Charles Alston (1716 - 1760) of Edinburgh

Worldwide: c. 60 species in Africa, Central America, China, Indomalesia and the western Pacific

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.

Alstonia venenata

Links to cultivated taxa    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
macrophylla Wall. ex G. DonDescription
venenata R. Br.Description, Image

Other sources of information about Alstonia:

External websites:

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

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: Alstonia.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1647, retrieved 19 March 2024

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