Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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3559.000 Caesalpinia
Description of the genus
Trees or climbing or sprawling shrubs, unarmed or bearing prickles. Stipules various. Leaves 2-pinnate; specialised glands on petiole or rhachis 0. Leaflets opposite. Inflorescence of medium to large flowers arranged in a raceme or panicle. Sepals free to the hypanthium. Petals subequal, 5, yellow. Stamens 10, usually all fertile. Pod not winged. Worldwide: c. 150 species, mainly in the tropics. Zimbabwe: 4 cultivated taxa. |
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| cassioides Willd. | Image |
| decapetala (Roth) Alston | Description, Image |
| ferrea Tul. | Description, Image |
| pulcherrima (L.) Sw. | Image |
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Flora of Malawi: cultivated Caesalpinia
Flora of Mozambique: Caesalpinia
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Caesalpinia
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Caesalpinia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Caesalpinia
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): CaesalpiniaFlora Zambesiaca web site: Caesalpinia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Caesalpinia
Wikipedia: Caesalpinia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Caesalpinia
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Caesalpinia
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