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

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

Species	Content
catappa L.	Description, Image
mantaly H. Perrier	Image
prunioides M.A. Lawson	Description, Image
sericea Burch. ex DC.	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Terminalia:

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

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Terminalia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Terminalia
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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