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Dioecious spiny, scrambling shrubs or small trees. Leaves spiral; stipules lateral. Inflorescences axillary, spherical-capitate with yellow glands on tepals and bracts. Tepals 4. Stamens 4. Stigmas 1-2. Fruiting perianth enlarged, fleshy, yellow to orange. Derivation of name: After William Maclure (1763-1840), an American geologist Worldwide: 12 species from Indomalesia to Australia, Africa and America Zimbabwe: 2 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| africana (Bureau) Corner | Description, Image |
| pomifera (Raf.) C.K.Schneid. |
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