4076.000 Vepris Comm. ex A. Juss.

DIPHASIOPSIS Mendonça

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, without prickles. Leaves alternate or rarely opposite (in V. bachmannii), 1- or 3-5-foliolate. Inflorescences of axillary and terminal racemes, panicles or clustered cymes. Flowers usually unisexual by abortion, (2-)4(-5)-merous. Sepals united to form a cup-shaped (3-)4-5-lobed calyx. Petals (3-)4, oblong. Male flowers: stamens 4-5 or (6-)8. Female flowers: ovary 1-2-4-locular, smooth. Fruit drupaceous, smooth, usually 1-2-4-seeded or sometimes woody and verrucose (in V. bremekampii).

Worldwide: 90 species in tropical and South Africa, Mascarenes and India.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

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lanceolata (Lam.) G.DonDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Vepris:

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Flora of Botswana: Vepris
Flora of Burundi: Vepris
Flora of Caprivi: Vepris
Flora of Malawi: Vepris
Flora of Mozambique: Vepris
Flora of Zambia: Vepris
Flora of Zimbabwe: Vepris

External websites:

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

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: Vepris.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=803, retrieved 3 December 2024

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