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Chaetocarpus
Description of the genus
Dioecious trees or shrubs, without milky latex. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, eglandular. Stipules present. Flowers in axillary fascicles: male fascicles many-flowered; female few-flowered. Male flowers: pedicels jointed; sepals 4-6, free, imbricate; petals 0; disk glands extrastaminal; stamens 5-16, borne on a column; pistillode 3-fid, hairy. Female flowers: sepals as in the male flowers; petals 0; disk cup-shaped, crenulate; ovary 3-locular with 1 ovule per loculus; styles 3. Fruit ellipsoid, splitting into 2-valved cocci, covered in bristles and tubercles. Seeds flattened-ovoid. Worldwide: A pantropical genus of 10-12 species, two in the Congo Basin and another in Madagascar. Zambia: 1 taxon. |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): ChaetocarpusBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Chaetocarpus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Chaetocarpus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Chaetocarpus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Chaetocarpus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Chaetocarpus
JSTOR Plant Science: Chaetocarpus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Chaetocarpus
Plants of the World Online: Chaetocarpus
Tropicos: Chaetocarpus
Wikipedia: Chaetocarpus
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