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5106.000 Dillenia
Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Description of the genus
Trees, rarely shrubs; bark red, grey or brown. Leaves alternate, simple, to 50 cm. long, with or without persistent or deciduous amplexicaul wings. Inflorescence solitary or in few- many-flowered racemes; Flowers showy, large; sepals (4 or)5(-18), fleshy, often accrescent; petals (4 or)5(-7) or absent. Fruit enclosed in large sepals; carpels dehiscing along ventral suture or indehiscent. Seeds usually only 1 or few per carpel. Derivation of name: after Johannes Jacobus Dillenius (1684 - 1747), a British botanist and physician, and also the first President of the Botanical Society of London. Worldwide: 65 species from Madagascar to Fiji and Australia. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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