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3978.000 Tribulus
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial herbs sometimes with a woody base. Leaves opposite, paripinnate, one of each pair usually larger than the other. Leaflets opposite, entire, slightly asymmetrical. Flowers solitary, axillary. Petals yellow. Ovary 5-lobed, densely stiffly hairy. Fruit breaking up into 5 cocci, each coccus tuberculate on the back, spiny, 1-5-seeded. Worldwide: 25 species in tropical and warm areas, especially dry parts of Africa Zimbabwe: 2 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| terrestris L. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| zeyheri Sond. subsp. zeyheri | S | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Tribulus:
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Flora of Botswana: TribulusFlora of Burundi: Tribulus
Flora of Caprivi: Tribulus
Flora of the DRC: Tribulus
Flora of Malawi: Tribulus
Flora of Mozambique: Tribulus
Flora of Rwanda: Tribulus
Flora of Zambia: Tribulus
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): TribulusBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Tribulus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Tribulus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Tribulus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Tribulus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tribulus
JSTOR Plant Science: Tribulus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Tribulus
Plants of the World Online: Tribulus
Tropicos: Tribulus
Wikipedia: Tribulus
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