5106.000 Dillenia L.

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

Description of the genus

Trees, rarely shrubs; bark red, grey or brown. Leaves alternate, simple, to 50 cm. long, with or without persistent or deciduous amplexicaul wings. Inflorescence solitary or in few- many-flowered racemes; Flowers showy, large; sepals (4 or)5(-18), fleshy, often accrescent; petals (4 or)5(-7) or absent. Fruit enclosed in large sepals; carpels dehiscing along ventral suture or indehiscent. Seeds usually only 1 or few per carpel.

Derivation of name: after Johannes Jacobus Dillenius (1684 - 1747), a British botanist and physician, and also the first President of the Botanical Society of London.

Worldwide: 65 species from Madagascar to Fiji and Australia.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

Dillenia indica

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Other sources of information about Dillenia:

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Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Dillenia

External websites:

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

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: Dillenia.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1751, retrieved 29 March 2024

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