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Bailey, L.H. & Bailey, E.Z. (1976) Hortus Third. A concise Dictionary of Plants Cultivated in the United States and Canada Macmillan Publishing Co, Inc., New York
Monoecious (rarely dioecious) trees, shrubs or herbs. Indumentum simple and/or glandular. Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple, generally palmately lobed. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, cymose, often in the form of a corymb. Male flowers: calyx usually with 5 imbricate lobes; petals 5; stamens 8 in 2 whorls of 5 and 3; pistillode 0. Female flowers: calyx and petals as for male; stigmas 3, usually 2-fid. Fruit usually splitting into 3 2-valved cocci, rarely indehiscent. Worldwide: 175 species in tropical and warm regions Zambia: 10 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| baumii Pax | B,S | S,W | |
| curcas L. | B,N,E,S | Nw,N,E,S | Description, Image |
| gossypiifolia L. var. elegans (Pohl) Müll. Arg. | N | N,W | Description, Image |
| macrophylla Pax & K. Hoffm. | E | E | |
| multifida L. | C,E | E,Lk | Description, Image |
| pachyrrhiza Radcl.-Sm.[DD] | N,S | Lp,S | |
| prunifolia Pax | N,W,E | Nw,N | |
| schweinfurthii Pax subsp. zambica Radcl.-Sm. | C | Lk | |
| seineri Pax var. seineri | B,S | S,W | Description, Image |
| seineri Pax var. tomentella Radcl.-Sm. [EN] | S | S |
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