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3528.010 Piliostigma
Description of the genus
Unarmed trees. Tendrils 0. Leaves simple, conspicuously 2-lobed with rust-coloured indumentum beneath. Flowers medium to small, unisexual in racemes or panicles. Calyx with turbinate tube and 4-5 short lobes. Petals 5. Fertile stamens 10 (in male flowers), reduced to staminodes in female flowers. Female flowers with stigma sessile on the ovary. Pods indehiscent, linear to oblong, woody, many-seeded. Derivation of name: from the Latin: pileus, a cap, referring to the cap-shaped stigma. Worldwide: 3 species in tropical Africa, Asia and Australia. Malawi: 1 taxon. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redh. | N,C,S | Description, Image |
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Flora of Botswana: PiliostigmaFlora of Caprivi: Piliostigma
Flora of Mozambique: Piliostigma
Flora of Zambia: Piliostigma
Flora of Zimbabwe: Piliostigma
External websites:
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): PiliostigmaFlora Zambesiaca web site: Piliostigma
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Piliostigma
Wikipedia: Piliostigma
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Piliostigma
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Piliostigma
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