Description
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Shrubs. Stems 2-ribbed, with pale corky bark. Stipules 2 (-many)-fid. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3-4; bacterial nodules 0; domatia present. Calyx limb short. Corolla yellow or white; tube shortly cylindric.
Flowers 5-merous, often appearing before the leaves are fully developed, in small terminal heads (in ours).
Ovary 2-locular; ovule 1 per loculus, erect. Style with 2 stigma lobes.
Fruit a drupe with 2 pyrenes.
Pyrenes opening by 2 marginal slits. Seeds with a pale testa; endosperm not ruminate.
Differs from Psychotria, to which it is closely related, by the dehiscent pyrenes, the pale testa and the non-ruminate endosperm.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Chazaliella Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1414
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Chazaliella: Brief Summary
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Chazaliella is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has about 20 species native to tropical Africa from Liberia to Tanzania and south to Zimbabwe.
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