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4329.000 Uapaca
Description of the genus
Deciduous shrubs or trees. Twigs strongly marked with leaf scars. Stipules present or 0. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of the branches, simple, entire. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or fasciculate, pedunculate, with an involucre composed of a whorl of 5-12 imbricate bracts surrounding the flowers. Male inflorescences many-flowered; the flowers sessile in spherical capitula, calyx lobes imbricate; petals 0, disk 0; stamens (4-)5(-6), free. Female inflorescences 1-flowered; flowers sessile; calyx minute, disk-like; petals 0; disk 0; ovary (2-)3(-5)-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent. Seeds flattened. Derivation of name: after the Madagascar vernacular name for the type species Uapaca thouarsii. Worldwide: 61 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar. Zimbabwe: 5 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| kirkiana Müll. Arg. var. kirkiana | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| lissopyrena Radcl.-Sm. | E | Description, Image |
| nitida Müll. Arg. var. nitida | N,C | Description, Image |
| nitida Müll. Arg. var. longifolia (P.A. Duvign.) Radcl.-Sm. | N | |
| sansibarica Pax | E | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Uapaca:
Our websites:
Flora of Malawi: UapacaFlora of Mozambique: Uapaca
Flora of Zambia: Uapaca
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): UapacaFlora Zambesiaca web site: Uapaca
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Uapaca
Wikipedia: Uapaca
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Uapaca
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Uapaca
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