Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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7192.000 Holmskioldia
Fayaz, F. (2011) Encyclopedia of Tropical Plants Firefly Books, New Zealand
Description of the genus
Shrubs, evergreen, scandent; young branches quadrangular. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate; margins entire to coarsely dentate; apex shortly acuminate, abaxially gland-dotted. Inflorescence of cymes or racemes, rarely panicles, dense, pedunculate, axillary or terminal; bracts lanceolate. Flowers brick-red to orange; calyx petaloid, margins entire with minute dots; corolla tube curved, broadening upward, crimson, unequally 5-lobed. Fruit a drupe, obovoid to globose; 4-lobed, sub-fleshy, enclosed by persistent, enlarged coloured calyx. Worldwide: 1 species from Himalayas to Burma. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): HolmskioldiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Holmskioldia
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