Description
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Shrubs or trees. Leaves petiolate, strongly 3-veined from the base. Stipules caducous. Flowers in leaf-opposed or axillary, 1-several-flowered cymes. Sepals 5, stellately-hairy on the outside. Petals 5, bright yellow, without glands. Stamens numerous; anthers dehiscing by terminal pores. Style simple; stigma simple. Fruit oblong-cylindric or fusiform, indehiscent, woody, longitudinally ribbed. Seeds discoid.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Glyphaea Flora of Mozambique website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2239
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- Petra Ballings
Glyphaea: Brief Summary
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Glyphaea is a genus of African flowering plants in the family Malvaceae, subfamily Grewioideae; it was previously placed in the Tiliaceae or Sparrmanniaceae.
It contains the following species:
Glyphaea brevis Glyphaea tomentosa
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