2034.000 Faurea Harv.

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or clustered near the ends of the branches, simple, entire. Flowers arranged in dense spikes or racemes, each flower in the axil of a small bract; involucre 0. Perianth petaloid, splitting into 2 major lobes at flowering time, releasing the style; one lobe ± free to base, consisting of a single segment, the other with 3 segments. Hypogynous scales 4, persistent. Style long, persistent, filiform, terminating in a simple stigma. Fruit a spherical nut

Derivation of name: for William Caldwell Faure (1822-1844), South African soldier, naturalist, botanist and plant collector.

Worldwide: 15 species in tropical and southern Africa and Madagascar.

Zimbabwe: 4 taxa.

Faurea saligna

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
delevoyi De Wild.N,C,EDescription
rochetiana (A. Rich.) Pic.Serm.N,C,EDescription, Image
rubriflora Marner[NrEnd]EDescription, Image
saligna Harv.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Faurea:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Faurea
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Faurea
Flora of Malawi: Faurea
Flora of Mozambique: Faurea
Flora of Zambia: Faurea

External websites:

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

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: Genus page: Faurea.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=484, retrieved 19 March 2024

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