6446.000 Salvadora Garcin. ex L.

Vickery, A.R. (1983) Salvadoraceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1)

Description of the genus

Glabrous or pubescent, unarmed shrubs or small trees, often scrambling. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal panicles. Calyx campanulate, 4–toothed; corolla campanulate, lobes imbricate, shortly joined at base, elliptic, obtuse. Fruit a globose drupe.

Derivation of name: after Juan Salvador y Bosca (1598-1681), a plant collector from Barcelona, Spain.

Worldwide: Four species from South Africa through Arabia to India and China.

Caprivi: 2 taxa.

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australis Schweick.Description, Image
persica L. var. persica Description, Image

Other sources of information about Salvadora:

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Flora of Botswana: Salvadora
Flora of Malawi: Salvadora
Flora of Mozambique: Salvadora
Flora of Zambia: Salvadora
Flora of Zimbabwe: Salvadora

External websites:

ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Salvadora
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Salvadora
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Salvadora
Wikipedia: Salvadora
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Salvadora
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Salvadora

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Caprivi: Genus page: Salvadora.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1086, retrieved 25 March 2023

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