4416.000 Tragia
Description of the genus
Erect or scrambling or twining, monoecious (rarely dioecious) perennial herbs or shrubs, with stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, stipulate, often cordate. Flowers in racemes, usually mostly male with 1-2 females at the base. Bracts conspicuous, persistent. Petals 0. Male flowers with 3 sepals and 3 stamens. Female flowers with 3 or 6 pinnate or palmate sepals, becoming enlarged in fruit. Ovary 3-locular. Derivation of name: named after the German botanist Hieronymus Bock, whose Latin name was Tragus, 1498-1554. Worldwide: 100 species in tropical and warm areas Zimbabwe: 14 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| benthamii Baker | N,S | |
| brevipes Pax | N,W | Description, Image |
| brevipes-benthamii-okanyu intermediates | N,S | |
| dioica Sond. | S | |
| furialis Bojer | E | Description, Image |
| gardneri Prain | W,C | Description, Image |
| incisifolia Prain | E,S | |
| kirkiana Müll. Arg. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| mazoensis Radcl.-Sm. [End] [DD] | N | Description, Image |
| okanyua Pax | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| plukenetii Radcl.-Sm. | E | |
| prionoides Radcl.-Sm. | W,C,E,S | |
| rhodesiae Pax | N,C | |
| tenuifolia Benth. | E |
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Flora of Malawi: Tragia
Flora of Mozambique: Tragia
Flora of Rwanda: Tragia
Flora of Zambia: Tragia
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): TragiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Tragia
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tragia
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Wikipedia: Tragia