5015.000 Kosteletzkya C. Presl

Description of the genus

Herbs or shrubs. Flowers either solitary and axillary or in axillary and terminal racemes. Epicalyx of 7-10 filiform to linear bracts. Calyx 5-lobed or -toothed. Corolla white, purple or pink. Ovary 5-locular; ovules 1 per loculus. Fruit a capsule, this depressed-spherical with 5 prominent angles.

Derivation of name: Named after V.F. Kosteletzky, writer of medical history

Worldwide: 30 species in North America, tropical and South Africa and Madagascar

Zimbabwe: 2 taxa.

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

Species	FZ divisions	Content
adoensis (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Mast.	E
buettneri Gürke	N,W,C	Description, Image

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Flora of Botswana: Kosteletzkya
Flora of Burundi: Kosteletzkya
Flora of Caprivi: Kosteletzkya
Flora of Malawi: Kosteletzkya
Flora of Zambia: Kosteletzkya

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Kosteletzkya
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Kosteletzkya
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Kosteletzkya
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Kosteletzkya
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iNaturalist: Kosteletzkya
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Kosteletzkya
JSTOR Plant Science: Kosteletzkya
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Kosteletzkya
Plants of the World Online: Kosteletzkya
Tropicos: Kosteletzkya
Wikipedia: Kosteletzkya