7038.000 Cordia L.

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite or opposite. Cymes arranged in lax or dense panicles, ebracteate, terminal or axillary. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, actinomorphic. Calyx tubular or ± campanulate, usually splitting irregularly, 3-5-toothed, usually accrescent and cup-shaped in fruit. Corolla 4-5(-7)-lobed, funnel-shaped to salver-shaped, white or yellowish. Ovary 4-locular (abortive in male flowers). Style terminal, twice 2-fid with 4 slender or clavate, stigmas. Fruit drupaceous, partially or wholly surrounded by the enlarged persistent calyx.

Derivation of name: after Valerius Cordus, 1515-1544, German physician and botanist.

Worldwide: c.320 species, tropical.

Zambia: 6 taxa.

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:

Striphnopteryx edulis (Edible monkey)

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
africana Lam.	N,W,E,S	Cb,N	Description, Image
goetzei Gürke	C,E	N,Mc	Description, Image
mukuensis Taton	B,N,W,C,S	Cb,C,Lk,S,W
pilosissima Baker	C,S	C,Lk,S	Description, Image
sinensis Lam.	C,S	S	Description, Image
sp. B	N	N

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Flora of Botswana: Cordia
Flora of Burundi: Cordia
Flora of Caprivi: Cordia
Flora of Malawi: Cordia
Flora of Mozambique: Cordia
Flora of Zambia: cultivated Cordia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Cordia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Cordia

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Cordia
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