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Description

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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite. Stipules 3-5-lobed. Flowers bisexual, heterostylous, (4-)5-merous in terminal corymbs. Calyx tube campanulate, the cupular limb with 5-7 unequal teeth. Corolla white, yellowish or tinged red, tomentose to woolly outside; lobes lanceolate. Ovary with 4-10 loculi; ovules 2-3 per loculus, erect, only 1 maturing, the other remaining attached to the seed. Style divided into 6-8 filiform lobes. Fruits usually red, drupaceous, ± spherical. Seeds flattened.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Triainolepis Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2299
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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