Description
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Trees, shrubs or lianes, often bearing tendrils in subopposite pairs (see image 2). Stipules pinnatifid or palmatifid. Leaves alternate, entire or toothed. Flowers solitary or paired or in few-flowered cymes borne in the leaf axils. Sepals 5, unequal. Petals 5, free, yellow, with a short claw. Stamens 10, all fertile, the filaments united at the base to form a cup. Ovary with 2-5 fertile loculi alternating with an equal number of sterile loculi; styles 2-5. Fruit a drupe. Seeds (1-)3-5.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Hugonia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=793
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- Petra Ballings
Hugonia: Brief Summary
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Hugonia is a genus of plant in the family Linaceae. The genus was named by Linnaeus after Augustus Johann von Hugo (1686-1760) of Hannover.
Species include:
Hugonia deplanchei Hugonia jenkinsii Hugonia macrophylla Oliv. Hugonia micans Engl. Hugonia mystax L.
Hugonia planchonii Hook.f.
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