7955.000 Whitfieldia Hook.

Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York

Description of the genus

Shrubs. Leaves opposite, ovate, entire. Inflorescence a terminal raceme. Flowers red or white. Calyx with 5 coloured petaloid segments. Corolla 5-lobed, two-lipped. Stamens 4, didynamous. Fruit a hairless capsule. Seeds 2-4, spherical, hairless.

Derivation of name: after Mr Thomas Whitfield, collector of plants in West Africa

Worldwide: 10 species in tropical Africa

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

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Species	Content
elongata (P. Beauv.) C.B. Clarke	Image

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Whitfieldia
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Whitfieldia
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