8412.000 Lasianthus Jack

Description of the genus

Shrubs or rarely small trees. Stipules interpetiolar. Leaves opposite. Flowers few, heterostylous and (in ours) borne in sessile axillary fascicles. Calyx tube subspherical; limb 3-6-lobed. Corolla pink or white, salver-shaped with 4-6 lobes. Ovary 4-12-locular; ovule solitary in each loculus, erect from the base. Fruits succulent, blue. Seeds with fleshy endosperm.

Worldwide: c. 170 species in tropcal Africa, Indomalesia to Australia

Burundi: 2 taxa.

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kilimandscharicus K.Schum.[Agg]
kilimandscharicus K.Schum. subsp. hirsutus Jannerup

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lasianthus
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