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HOLMSKIOLDIA Retz.
Trees or shrubs, unarmed or with woody spines. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, dentate or lobed. Calyx often coloured; limb rotate, 5-lobed, very accrescent and becoming papery with raised reticulation in fruit. Corolla strongly zygomorphic, appearing 1-lipped, the lip 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, long-exserted. Ovary hairy. Fruit dry, hard, turbinate or obconical, sometimes strongly 4-lobed above, separating at maturity into 4 mericarps. Worldwide: 9 species; one in Vietnam, the others in Madagascar and Africa Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
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