5544.000 Terminalia L.

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, without scales or microscopic stalked glands. Leaves spirally arranged, often crowded in terminal rosettes, sometimes on short shoots. Flowers usually in axillary spikes with male flowers towards the apex, bisexual towards base. Male flowers stalked, bisexual sessile. Petals 0. Stamens usually 10, exserted. Ovary inferior. Fruit 2-winged (in ours).

Worldwide: 150 species in the tropics

Zimbabwe: 4 cultivated taxa.

Insects associated with this genus:
Coeliades pisistratus (Two-pip policeman) Larval foodplant
Trabala charon Larval foodplant
Terminalia catappa

Links to cultivated taxa    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesContent
catappa L.Description, Image
mantaly H. PerrierImage
prunioides M.A. LawsonDescription, Image
sericea Burch. ex DC.Description, Image

Other sources of information about Terminalia:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Terminalia
Flora of Caprivi: Terminalia
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Terminalia
Flora of Malawi: Terminalia
Flora of Mozambique: Terminalia
Flora of Mozambique: cultivated Terminalia
Flora of Zambia: Terminalia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Terminalia

External websites:

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

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Terminalia.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=1010, retrieved 28 March 2024

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