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4478.000 Excoecaria
Description of the genus
Dioecious or monoecious trees, with milky latex. Leaves alternate or opposite. Inflorescence a spike, unisexual or bisexual composed mostly of male flowers with a few female at the base. Male flowers: sessile; sepals 3; petals and disk 0; stamens 3. Female flowers: sepals 3; petals and disk 0;ovary 3-locular; styles 3, free, strongly coiled. Fruit 3-lobed, dehiscent, strongly inflated in E. bussei. Worldwide: 40 species in the Old World tropics extending to the Pacific 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 |
| bussei (Pax) Pax | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| madagascariensis (Baill.) Müll. Arg. | E |
Other sources of information about Excoecaria:
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Flora of Malawi: Excoecaria
Flora of Mozambique: Excoecaria
Flora of Zambia: Excoecaria
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Excoecaria
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): ExcoecariaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Excoecaria
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Excoecaria
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Excoecaria
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iNaturalist: Excoecaria
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Excoecaria
JSTOR Plant Science: Excoecaria
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Excoecaria
Plants of the World Online: Excoecaria
Tropicos: Excoecaria
Wikipedia: Excoecaria
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