6434.000 Olea L.

Description of the genus

Trees and shrubs. Leaves opposite and decussate, simple, coriaceous. Domatia 0. Flowers small, in paniculate cymes. Calyx (in ours) cup-shaped, subentire with a 4-toothed rim. Corolla with short tube, lobes not hooded. Fruit a usually 1-seeded drupe.

Worldwide: 30 species occurring in the tropics and warm temperate zones of the Old World

Zambia: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
capensis L. subsp. macrocarpa (C.H. Wright) I. Verd.	N,W
europaea L. subsp. cuspidata (Wall ex G. Don) Cif.	E,S	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Olea:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Olea
Flora of Burundi: Olea
Flora of Malawi: Olea
Flora of Mozambique: Olea
Flora of Zimbabwe: Olea
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Olea

External websites:

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

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Nicholas Wightman, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-25

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wightman, N., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2025). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Olea.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1082, retrieved 2 April 2025

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