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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 |
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