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Trees shrubs or suffrutices, usually evergreen. Leaves alternate, subopposite or subwhorled; margin sometimes minutely crenate, otherwise entire. Inflorescence a simple or branched false raceme. Flowers unisexual, the male usually larger than the female. Calyx 4(-5)-lobed, not accrescent. Corolla campanulate, 4(-5)-lobed. Stamens 10-30. Disk fleshy, fimbriate, sometimes undulate. Styles 2-3. Fruit nearly always a 1-seeded berry. Seed ± spherical, with 3 radiating lines from the apex. Worldwide: c.12 species in Africa, Arabia, Socotra and the Comoro Is. Zimbabwe: 8 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
crispa (Thunb.) Sond. ex Gürke subsp. crispa | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
crispa (Thunb.) Sond. ex Gürke subsp. linearis sens. strict. (Zeyh. ex Hiern) F. White | W,C,S | |
crispa (Thunb.) Sond. ex Gürke subsp. linearis sens.lat. (Zeyh. ex Hiern) F. White | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
divinorum Hiern | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
natalensis A. DC. subsp. acutifolia F. White | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
natalensis A. DC. subsp. angustifolia F. White | S | |
schimperi (A. DC.) Dandy | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
undulata Thunb. | W,C,S | Description, Image |
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