6310.000 Embelia Burm. f.

Description of the genus

Dioecious climbing shrubs or lianes. Leaves entire or crenate. Inflorescences of racemes or umbels; peduncles present. Flowers unisexual, 4-5-merous. Sepals free or ± free, with resin-dots. Petals free inner surface papillose. Anthers borne on long filaments. Ovary superior. Fruit a spherical 1-seeded drupe. Seed solitary, depressed-spherical with ruminate endosperm.

Worldwide: c. 100 species in warm and tropical regions of the Old World

Burundi: 5 taxa.

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Species		Content
libeniana Taton
multiflora Taton
nilotica Oliv.
schimperi Vatke		Description, Image
welwitschii (Hiern) K.Schum.

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Flora of Caprivi: Embelia
Flora of Malawi: Embelia
Flora of Mozambique: Embelia
Flora of Zambia: Embelia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Embelia
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Embelia

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Embelia
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Embelia
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