Heywoodia Sim

Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996) Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4)

Description of the genus

Tree, evergreen completely glabrous. Leaves alternate, petiolate, sometimes peltate in juvenile foliage, stipulate; blades simple, entire, basally symmetrical, coriaceous. Flowers axillary, sessile, 1-3-flowered cymes, shortly pedicellate; bracts 4, free, imbricate, concave. Sepals 3, free, imbricate, concave, unequal; petals 5, free, imbricate, concave, subequal. Fruit depressed-subglobose, shallowly 8–10-lobed, tardily septicidally dehiscent. Seeds solitary per loculus by abortion.

Derivation of name: after Arthur William Heywood, 1853-1918, who was a conservator of the Tsitsikama and Transkei forests, during the 1800s.

Worldwide: 1 species with a disjunct distribution in East Africa and Mozambique and South Africa

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

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lucens Sim

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