| Home | > | List of families | > | Combretaceae | > | Combretum |
5538.000 Combretum
Description of the genus
Trees, shrubs, or woody climbers. Leaves opposite, whorled, subopposite or rarely alternate, usually entire; petiole sometimes persisting and forming a ± hooked spine. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, 4-5-merous. Calyx 4-5 (rarely more). Petals usually 4-5, variously coloured. Stamens twice as many as petals, in 1 or 2 series. Ovary inferior. Fruit 4-5-winged. A generally recognisable genus but Schrebera trichoclada in leaf looks very similar. The flowers of many species resemble those of willows (Salix species), hence their common name of Bushwillow. Worldwide: 250 species in the tropics, excluding Australia Zimbabwe: 36 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
|
 |
Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| adenogonium Steud. ex A. Rich. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| albopunctatum Suess. | N,W | |
| apiculatum Sond.[Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. apiculatum | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| apiculatum Sond. subsp. leutweinii (Schinz) Exell | N,W,E,S | |
| celastroides Welw. ex M.A. Lawson[Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | |
| celastroides Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. celastroides | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| collinum Fresen.[Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| collinum Fresen. subsp. gazense (Swynn. & Baker f.) Okafor | Description, Image | |
| collinum Fresen. subsp. ondongense (Engl. & Diels) Okafor | Description, Image | |
| collinum Fresen. subsp. suluense (Engl. & Diels) Okafor | ||
| collinum Fresen. subsp. taborense (Engl.) Okafor | ||
| coriifolium Engl. & Diels[EN] | E | |
| elaeagnoides Klotzsch | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| engleri Schinz | ? | |
| erythrophyllum (Burch.) Sond. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| goetzei Engl. & Diels | N | |
| hereroense Schinz subsp. hereroense | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| imberbe Wawra | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| kirkii M.A. Lawson | N | Description |
| microphyllum Klotzsch | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| molle R.Br ex G. Don | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| mossambicense (Klotzsch) Engl. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| obovatum F. Hoffm. | N | Description, Image |
| padoides Engl. & Diels | N,E,S | Description, Image |
| paniculatum Vent. | E | Description, Image |
| patelliforme Engl. & Diels | S | Description |
| platypetalum Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. oatesii (Rolfe) Exell | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| platypetalum Welw. ex M.A. Lawson subsp. platypetalum | C | |
| psidioides Welw.[Agg] | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. dinteri (Schinz) Exell | N,W,E | Description |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. glabrum Exell[End] | N,W | Description |
| psidioides Welw. subsp. psidioides | N,W,C,E,S | Description |
| schumannii Engl. | W | |
| umbricola Engl.[CR] | E | |
| zeyheri Sond. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Combretum:
Our websites:
Flora of Botswana: CombretumFlora of Burundi: Combretum
Flora of Caprivi: Combretum
Flora of the DRC: Combretum
Flora of Malawi: Combretum
Flora of Mozambique: Combretum
Flora of Rwanda: Combretum
Flora of Zambia: Combretum
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Combretum
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CombretumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Combretum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Combretum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Combretum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Combretum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Combretum
JSTOR Plant Science: Combretum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Combretum
Plants of the World Online: Combretum
Tropicos: Combretum
Wikipedia: Combretum
| Home | > | List of families | > | Combretaceae | > | Combretum |