Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants
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3544.000 Gleditsia - Honey-locusts
Description of the genus
Trees or shrubs, usually with stout, simple or branched, thorns. Leaves usually 2-pinnate on long shoots, 1-pinnate or 2-pinnate on short shoots. Leaflets often serrate. Flowers unisexual, in racemes or panicles, greenish. Bracteoles small or 0. Calyx campanulate with 3-5, subequal lobes. Petals 3-5, sessile, imbricate. Stamens 6-10. Anthers uniform. Pods ovate or elongated, straight, flattened, indehiscent or tardily dehiscent. Derivation of name: for Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch (Gleditsius), 1714-1786, German physician and botanist. Worldwide: 14 species from eastern North America to New Guinea. Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): GleditsiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Gleditsia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Gleditsia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Gleditsia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Gleditsia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Gleditsia
JSTOR Plant Science: Gleditsia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Gleditsia
Plants of the World Online: Gleditsia
Tropicos: Gleditsia
Wikipedia: Gleditsia
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