8656.000 Canarina L.

Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand

Description of the genus

Perennial herbs, terrestrial or epiphytic, glabrous with abundant white latex; roots thickened, fleshy; stems herbaceous, terete and hollow; most leaf axils producing small, rudimentary, accessory shoots. Leaves opposite or ternate, petiolate. Inflorescence flowers solitary in dischasial forks or terminal. Flowers large pendent (-5)6(-7)merous throughout; calyx lobes entire or sometimes dentate, erect, spreading, or reflexed; corolla funnelform or campanulate, lobes short. Fruit baccate with persistent calyx. Seeds numerous.

Worldwide: 3 species in tropical Africa (2) and Canary Islands (1).

Malawi: 1 taxon.

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Other sources of information about Canarina:

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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Canarina

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Canarina
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Canarina
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Canarina
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Canarina
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Canarina
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Canarina
JSTOR Plant Science: Canarina
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Canarina
Plants of the World Online: Canarina
Tropicos: Canarina
Wikipedia: Canarina

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Genus page: Canarina.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2450, retrieved 28 March 2024

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