Marquesia Gilg

Description of the genus

Tall trees, with buttresses. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, penninerved, with an extra-floral nectary at the base of the midrib on the upper surface; stipules caducous. Flowers in large terminal panicles, radially symmetric, bisexual; sepals 5, petals 5, white; fruit surrounded by the 5 acrescent sepals.

Comment: A recent proposal to validate the name Trillesanthus has been challenged. A ruling will be made at a specialist meeting.

Zambia: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
acuminata (Gilg) R.E. Fr.[VU]	N,W	Nw,Lp	Description, Image
macroura Gilg	N,W,C	Nw,Cb,Lp,N,Mc,C	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Marquesia:

External websites:

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

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Marquesia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1946, retrieved 24 April 2024

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