6314.000 Rapanea Aubl.

Description of the genus

Trees and shrubs. Leaves entire. Flowers in dense fascicles, 4-5-merous. Sepals and petals often marked with dots and lines. Anthers sessile, adnate to corolla. Ovary superior. Fruit (in ours) a 1-seeded drupe.

Worldwide: Pantropical genus of 100 species

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
melanophloeos (L.) Mez	N,W	Nw,Lp,Mc	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Rapanea:

Our websites:

Flora of Burundi: Rapanea
Flora of Malawi: Rapanea
Flora of Mozambique: Rapanea
Flora of Zimbabwe: Rapanea

External websites:

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

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

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Rapanea.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1061, retrieved 21 November 2024

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