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4329.000 Uapaca
Description of the genus
Deciduous shrubs or trees. Twigs strongly marked with leaf scars. Stipules present or 0. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of the branches, simple, entire. Inflorescences axillary, solitary or fasciculate, pedunculate, with an involucre composed of a whorl of 5-12 imbricate bracts surrounding the flowers. Male inflorescences many-flowered; the flowers sessile in spherical capitula, calyx lobes imbricate; petals 0, disk 0; stamens (4-)5(-6), free. Female inflorescences 1-flowered; flowers sessile; calyx minute, disk-like; petals 0; disk 0; ovary (2-)3(-5)-locular with 2 ovules per loculus. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent. Seeds flattened. Derivation of name: after the Madagascar vernacular name for the type species Uapaca thouarsii. Worldwide: 61 species in tropical Africa and Madagascar. Caprivi: 3 cultivated taxa. The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
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Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | Content |
| kirkiana Müll.Arg.[Agg] | |
| nitida Müll.Arg.[Agg] | |
| sansibarica Pax | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Uapaca:
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Flora of Malawi: UapacaFlora of Mozambique: Uapaca
Flora of Zambia: Uapaca
Flora of Zimbabwe: Uapaca
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): UapacaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Uapaca
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Uapaca
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Uapaca
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Uapaca
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Uapaca
JSTOR Plant Science: Uapaca
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Uapaca
Plants of the World Online: Uapaca
Tropicos: Uapaca
Wikipedia: Uapaca
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