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8360.000 Ancylanthos
Description of the genus
Suffrutex (in ours) arising from a woody rootstock. Stipules long-caudate. Leaves usually opposite, sometimes in whorls of 3. Flowers in cymes. Calyx: tube campanulate; limb-tube very reduced; lobes 5, ± leaf-like. Corolla bright orange or orange-yellow, rusty-tomentose outside; tube 17 - 25 mm, cylindric, ± curved, greatly exceeding the reflexed lobes, each of which bears an appendage. Ovary 4-5-locular; ovule 1 per loculus, pendulous. Pollen-presenter large, lobed at apex. Fruit crowned with calyx lobes, with up to 5 pyrenes. Worldwide: 5 species in tropical Africa Zimbabwe: 1 taxon. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| rubiginosus Desf. | W,S | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Ancylanthos:
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Flora of Botswana: AncylanthosFlora of Caprivi: Ancylanthos
Flora of Mozambique: Ancylanthos
Flora of Zambia: Ancylanthos
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): AncylanthosBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ancylanthos
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ancylanthos
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Ancylanthos
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Ancylanthos
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ancylanthos
JSTOR Plant Science: Ancylanthos
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ancylanthos
Plants of the World Online: Ancylanthos
Tropicos: Ancylanthos
Wikipedia: Ancylanthos
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