8352.040 Keetia E. Phillips

Description of the genus

Climbing shrubs or lianes. Leaves opposite. Stipules interpetiolar, without a keeled lobe. Inflorescences pedunculate, branched cymes. Flowers 4-6-merous. Calyx: tube ellipsoid to ovoid; limb dentate. Corolla white, cream or yellow with a cylindric tube and reflexed lobes. Anthers exserted but not reflexed. Ovary 2-locular; ovule 1 per loculus. Fruit a 2-seeded drupe, ± 2-lobed and flattened.

Derivation of name: after Johan Diederich Möhr Keet, 1882-1976, a South African forester and plant collector.

Worldwide: 40 species in tropical and South Africa.

Burundi: 8 taxa.

Keetia gueinzii

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
acuminata Bridson
angustifolia Bridson
ferruginea Bridson
gueinzii (Sond.) BridsonDescription, Image
hispida (Benth.) Bridson
rwandensis Bridson
venosa (Oliv.) BridsonDescription, Image
zanzibarica (Klotzsch) Bridson subsp. gentilii (De Wild.) Bridson

Other sources of information about Keetia:

Our websites:

Flora of Malawi: Keetia
Flora of Mozambique: Keetia
Flora of Rwanda: Keetia
Flora of Zambia: Keetia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Keetia

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Keetia
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Keetia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Keetia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Keetia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Keetia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Keetia
JSTOR Plant Science: Keetia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Keetia
Plants of the World Online: Keetia
Tropicos: Keetia
Wikipedia: Keetia

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