6603.000 Tabernaemontana L.

CONOPHARYNGIA G. Don

ERVATAMIA (A. DC. )Stapf

Description of the genus

Unarmed shrubs or trees, with milky latex. Branching dichotomous. Leaves opposite. Flowers actinomorphic. Corolla white, the lobes overlapping to the left. Anthers sagittate at the base. Fruit composed of 2 free carpels; these dehiscent or not.

Worldwide: 99 species in the tropics

Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa.

Insects associated with this genus:

Botyodes asialis Larval foodplant

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

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Species	Content
catharinensis A. DC.
divaricata (L.) R. Br. ex Roem. & Schult.

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Flora of Burundi: Tabernaemontana
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Tabernaemontana

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Tabernaemontana
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Tropicos: Tabernaemontana
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