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Kupicha, F.K. (1983) Oleaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1)
Low shrubs or suffrutices, glabrous or hairy. Leaves alternate or opposite, entire or lobed, sessile or petiolate. Inflorescence 1 to many–flowered, cymose; pedicels erect or recurved in fruit. Calyx 5–15–lobed, segments entire or divided. Corolla yellow or white, usually subrotate to shortly infundibuliform. Fruit a bilocular capsule forming 2 cocci with membranous pericarp; dehiscence usually circumscissile. Seeds angular, reticulate; endosperm absent. Worldwide: 17 species in temperate U.S.A. and Mexico, temperate South America and South Africa. Botswana: 2 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
africana Hook. | ||
heterophylla Moric. ex DC. var. australis Steyerm. | SE |
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