Berlinia Sol. ex Hook. f.

Bingham, M.G. (2012) Berlinia and Isoberlinia in Zambia Black Lechwe 18(2) 8-10

Description of the genus

Evergreen trees; leaves paripinnate, leaflets with distinct petiolules, in 3−5 pairs, subequal in size; flower borne on large terminal panicles; flower buds enclosed in a pair of bracteoles; petals 5, the dorsal much the largest, white; pod large, woody, compressed, explosively dehiscent. The leaves are not easily distinguished from those of Isoberlinia.

Worldwide: 15 species in tropical Africa, 2 species in the Flora Zambesiaca region, 1 species in Zambia.

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
giorgii De Wild .	N	Lp,N	Image

Other sources of information about Berlinia:

Our websites:

Flora of Burundi: Berlinia
Flora of Mozambique: Berlinia

External websites:

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

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: Berlinia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2175, retrieved 22 November 2024

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