Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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5024.000 Bombax
Description of the genus
Trees, sometimes spiny. Leaves digitate with 5-7 leaflets. Flowers large (c. 5 cm or more long) solitary or in short cymes or clusters. Calyx truncate or shortly lobed. Petals 5. Stamens numerous. Ovary 5-locular with many ovules per loculus. Fruit dehiscent, a 5-lobed woody capsule, full of silky hairs containing the seeds. Derivation of name: from the Greek bombyx, meaning silk, referring to the silky hairs surrounding the seeds. Worldwide: 20 species in the Old World tropics Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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Flora of Malawi: BombaxFlora of Mozambique: Bombax
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ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): BombaxFlora Zambesiaca web site: Bombax
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Bombax
Wikipedia: Bombax
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Bombax
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Bombax
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