8308.000 Tricalysia
Description of the genus
Usually shrubs, less often small trees. Leaves petiolate, sometimes with domatia, without bacterial nodules. Inflorescences axillary and opposite, sessile to subsessile, usually many-flowered and strongly contracted. Flowers (4-)5-9(-12)-merous, usually sweetly scented, sessile, bisexual. Calyx very variable. Corolla usually white, sometimes greenish, cream, or rose, salver-shaped. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit drupaceous. Worldwide: 95 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar Malawi: 7 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| acocantheroides K. Schum. | N,C,S | |
| coriacea (Benth.) Hiern subsp. nyassae (Hiern) Bridson | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| ignota Bridson [NrEnd] | S | |
| jasminiflora (Klotzsch) Hiern var. jasminiflora | S | Description, Image |
| niamniamensis Hiern | C | Description, Image |
| pallens Hiern | N,S | Description, Image |
| verdcourtiana Robbr. | N | Description, Image |
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