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4448.000 Clutia
Description of the genus
Dioecious, less often monoecious, trees, shrubs or herbs. Indumentum simple. Leaves simple, alternate, entire. Flowers in axillary fascicles; female flowers sometimes solitary. Male flowers: pedicels jointed; sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, free, clawed; disk with glands in 1-3 series on the sepals, petals and receptacle; stamens 5; pistillode present. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male but persistent and hardening in fruit; ovary 3-locular with 1 ovule per loculus; styles 3. Fruit splitting into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds shiny, black. Worldwide: 70 species, mostly in Africa, including 2 in Arabia. Zimbabwe: 12 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| abyssinica Jaub. & Spach. var. abyssinica | E | Description, Image |
| abyssinica Jaub. & Spach. var. pedicellaris (Pax) Pax | E | Description |
| abyssinica Jaub. & Spach.[Agg] | E | |
| hirsuta E. Mey. ex Sond. | N,C,E | Description, Image |
| monticola S. Moore var. monticola | E | |
| monticola S. Moore var. stelleroides (S. Moore) Radcl.-Sm.[End][VU] | E | Description |
| paxii Knauf ex Pax | E | Description, Image |
| pulchella L. var. obtusata Sond. | C,S | |
| punctata Wild[End][LR-nt] | E | Description |
| robusta Pax | E | |
| sessilifolia Radcl.-Sm.[NrEnd][VU] | E | Description, Image |
| swynnertonii S. Moore | E,S | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Clutia:
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Flora of Botswana: ClutiaFlora of Burundi: Clutia
Flora of the DRC: Clutia
Flora of Malawi: Clutia
Flora of Mozambique: Clutia
Flora of Rwanda: Clutia
Flora of Zambia: Clutia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): ClutiaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Clutia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Clutia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Clutia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Clutia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Clutia
JSTOR Plant Science: Clutia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Clutia
Plants of the World Online: Clutia
Tropicos: Clutia
Wikipedia: Clutia
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