3990.000 Zanthoxylum
FAGARA L.
Description of the genus
Trees or shrubs, armed with prickles. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. Leaflets in (1-)2-12(or more) pairs, opposite or alternate, sessile or petiolulate, usually ± asymmetric. Inflorescence of panicles or of racemes borne at the base of new branches below the leaves. Flowers unisexual by abortion. Fruit a dehiscent, spherical or subspherical, glandular-foveolate, 1-seeded follicle. Seed ± spherical, black, shiny. Worldwide: c. 250 species in America, Africa and Asia Zimbabwe: 7 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| capense (Thunb.) Harv. | W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| chalybeum Engl. var. chalybeum | N,W,C | Image |
| davyi (I. Verd.) P.G. Waterman [EN] | E,S | |
| gilletii (De Wild.) P.G. Waterman [VU] | E | Image |
| humile (E.A. Bruce) P.G. Waterman | W,S | |
| leprieurii Guill. & Perr. | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| trijugum (Dunkley) P.G. Waterman | N,E | Image |
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