Flora of Caprivi: Cultivated plants
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6479.000 Exacum
Description of the genus
Annual herb (in ours). Stems erect, 4-ridged. Flowers 4-5-merous in axillary cymes. Corolla with a short tube and spreading lobes. Flowers mainly blue, rarely pink or white. Stamens inserted below the sinuses; anthers opening by apical pores; lacking apical and basal glands. Ovary 2-locular. Fruit a capsule. Worldwide: 65 species in the Old World tropics Caprivi: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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| oldenlandioides (S. Moore) Klackenb. | Description, Image |
Other sources of information about Exacum:
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Flora of Malawi: ExacumFlora of Mozambique: Exacum
Flora of Zambia: Exacum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Exacum
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): ExacumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Exacum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Exacum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Exacum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Exacum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Exacum
JSTOR Plant Science: Exacum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Exacum
Plants of the World Online: Exacum
Tropicos: Exacum
Wikipedia: Exacum
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