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6680.000 Adenium
Description of the genus
Shrubs and trees with succulent stems and white latex (in ours). Stipules minute or 0. Leaves alternate, at the branch apices. Inflorescence a lax thyrse. Flowers slightly zygomorphic. Corolla lobes fused at base into a tube; lobes overlapping to the right in bud. Anthers produced into long hairy appendages. Carpels 2, spherical. Seeds with hairs at each end. Worldwide: 5 species in tropical and subtropical Africa and Arabia Botswana: 2 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| boehmianum Schinz[EN] | SE | |
| oleifolium Stapf[VU] | SE | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Adenium:
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Flora of Malawi: AdeniumFlora of Mozambique: Adenium
Flora of Zambia: Adenium
Flora of Zimbabwe: Adenium
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Adenium
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): AdeniumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Adenium
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Adenium
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Adenium
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Adenium
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Adenium
JSTOR Plant Science: Adenium
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Adenium
Plants of the World Online: Adenium
Tropicos: Adenium
Wikipedia: Adenium
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