Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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5741.000 Medinilla
Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Description of the genus
Epiphytic or terrestrial shrubs or scramblers. Lear blades 5-15 pinnately veined. Inflorescence with stalked panicles or crowded clusters; bracts deciduous. Flora tube pubescent to glabrous; calyx truncate, obscurely toothed or 4-6 lobed. Ovary inferior. Fruit a berry. Seeds numerous, ovate to sickle-shaped. Worldwide: 200-500 species in the Old World from Africa and Madagascar to Taiwan and south to Fiji. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): MedinillaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Medinilla
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Medinilla
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Medinilla
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iNaturalist: Medinilla
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Medinilla
JSTOR Plant Science: Medinilla
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Medinilla
Plants of the World Online: Medinilla
Tropicos: Medinilla
Wikipedia: Medinilla
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