4345.000 Bridelia
Description of the genus
Monoecious (rarely dioecious) shrubs or trees. Leaves alternate, stipulate, simple. Flowers small and axillary. Male flowers in many-flowered clusters, ± sessile: sepals and petals 5; filaments united in a column, free above. Female flowers in few-flowered clusters or solitary, sometimes pedicellate; styles 2. Ovary 2-locular (1-locular by abortion). Fruit a smooth berry or drupe, with (1-)2 pyrenes, generally indehiscent. Worldwide: 60 species in the Old World tropics Zimbabwe: 6 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| atroviridis Müll. Arg. [CR] | E | Description, Image |
| cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard var. melanthesoides (Baill.) Radcl.-Sm. | N,W,E,S | Image |
| cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard var. lingelsheimii (Gehrm.) Radcl.-Sm. | N,W,C,E,S | |
| cathartica G. Bertol. subsp. melanthesoides (Baill.) J. Léonard [Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| micrantha (Hochst.) Baill. | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| mollis Hutch. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
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