6729.000 Mondia Skeels

Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020) Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2)

Venter, H.J.T, Verhoeven, R.L. & Bruyns, P.V. (2009) Morphology and taxonomy of Mondia (Apocynaceae: Periplocoideae) South African Journal of Botany 75 456-465

Description of the genus

Liane. Leaves opposite. Flowers in axillary paniculate cymes. Corolla deeply 5-lobed, without a distinct tube. Corona arising from base of filaments, 5-lobed; lobes free, broadly obcordate or obreniform, with or without a dorsal process. Follicles thick, divaricate. Seeds flattened, with an apical tuft of hairs.

Worldwide: 2 species in tropical Africa

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

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

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

Species	Content
whitei (Hook. f.) Skeels	Description, Image

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