8568.000 Kedrostis Medik.

Description of the genus

Prostrate or scandent herbs with tuberous rootstock. Leaves simple, petiolate. Tendrils simple or 2-fid. Inflorescence few to many in axillary racemes or fascicles, usually pedunculate; flowers small, yellowish; receptacle-tube campanulate, lobes usually small; corolla-lobes 5, united below. Fruit solitary, small to medium-sized, succulent, cylindric-fusiform to globose, often rostrate, red, indehiscent or dehiscent by a longitudinal slit. Seeds asymmetrically ovoid or subglobose, small.

Worldwide: 25 species in Old World tropics, mostly Africa.

Malawi: 1 taxon.

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leloja (Forssk.) C. JeffreyN,C,SDescription, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Kedrostis
Flora of Caprivi: Kedrostis
Flora of Mozambique: Kedrostis
Flora of Zambia: Kedrostis
Flora of Zimbabwe: Kedrostis

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ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Kedrostis
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Kedrostis
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Kedrostis
Wikipedia: Kedrostis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Kedrostis
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Kedrostis

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Malawi: Genus page: Kedrostis.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1436, retrieved 20 March 2023

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