3978.000 Tribulus L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs sometimes with a woody base. Leaves opposite, paripinnate, one of each pair usually larger than the other. Leaflets opposite, entire, slightly asymmetrical. Flowers solitary, axillary. Petals yellow. Ovary 5-lobed, densely stiffly hairy. Fruit breaking up into 5 cocci, each coccus tuberculate on the back, spiny, 1-5-seeded.

Worldwide: 25 species in tropical and warm areas, especially dry parts of Africa

Malawi: 1 taxon.

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

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

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: Tribulus.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=795, retrieved 20 March 2023

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