Description
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Subshrubs, climbing or erect. Leaves simple, often with a dorsal basal spur, which is hard, spine-like and persistent, not peltate. Male inflorescences of few-flowered cymes. Male flowers: sepals 4, sometimes white woolly; petals 4, fused into a saucer-shaped corolla; stamens 4-10, fused into a synandrium. Female inflorescences of paired or solitary flowers. Female flowers: sepals 2; petals 2; staminodes 0; carpel 1. Drupe ± ovoid,; endocarp horseshoe-shaped with warty ridges.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Antizoma Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=586
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Antizoma: Brief Summary
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Antizoma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Menispermaceae.
Its native range is Angola to Southern Africa.
Species:
Antizoma angolensis Exell & Mendonça Antizoma angustifolia (Burch.) Miers ex Harv. Antizoma miersiana Harv.
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