4329.000 Uapaca Baill.

Description of the genus

Deciduous shrubs or trees. Twigs strongly marked with leaf scars. Stipules present or 0. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of the branches, simple, entire. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or fasciculate, pedunculate, with an involucre composed of a whorl of 5-12 imbricate bracts surrounding the flowers. Male inflorescences many-flowered; the flowers sessile in spherical capitula, calyx lobes imbricate; petals 0, disk 0; stamens (4-)5(-6), free. Female inflorescences 1-flowered; flowers sessile; calyx minute, disk-like; petals 0; disk 0; ovary (2-)3(-5)-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent. Seeds flattened.

Derivation of name: after the Madagascar vernacular name for the type species Uapaca thouarsii.

Worldwide: 61 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar.

Zimbabwe: 5 taxa.

Insects associated with this genus:

Latoia urda (Large green latoia) Larval foodplant

Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	FZ divisions	Content
kirkiana Müll. Arg. var. kirkiana	N,C,E,S	Description, Image
lissopyrena Radcl.-Sm.	E	Description, Image
nitida Müll. Arg. var. nitida	N,C	Description, Image
nitida Müll. Arg. var. longifolia (P.A. Duvign.) Radcl.-Sm.	N
sansibarica Pax	E	Description, Image

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Flora of Burundi: Uapaca
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Flora of Malawi: Uapaca
Flora of Mozambique: Uapaca
Flora of Zambia: Uapaca

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Uapaca
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Uapaca
JSTOR Plant Science: Uapaca
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Uapaca
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Wikipedia: Uapaca