8352.030 Psydrax Gaertn.

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, sometimes climbing. Stipules glabrous inside. Inflorescence of umbellate or branched cymes. Flowers 4-5-merous. Calyx tube broad; the limb reduced to a rim. Corolla white or yellow; lobes reflexed. Style usually at least twice as long as the corolla tube; pollen-presenter cylindric. Ovary 2-locular.

Derivation of name: from the Greek psydrax, blister or bump, perhaps referring to the bumps on the leaf upper surface above the domatia or alternatively to the warty seeds of some species.

Worldwide: 100 species in the Old World tropics.

Zambia: 10 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsProvincesContent
kraussioides (Hiern) BridsonN,W,CNw,Cb,NDescription, Image
livida (Hiern) BridsonB,N,W,C,E,SNw,Cb,N,E,C,Lk,S,WDescription, Image
martinii (Dunkley) BridsonE,SE,S
mutimushii Bridson subsp. mutimushii B,N,WNw,Lp
parviflora (Afz.) Bridson subsp. parviflora WNw,Cb
richardsiae Bridson NN
schimperiana (A.Rich.) Bridson subsp. schimperiana WCb
sp. A NN
subcordata (DC.) Bridson var. subcordata N,WNw,N
whitei Bridson [VU]N,EMcDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Psydrax:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Psydrax
Flora of Caprivi: Psydrax
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Psydrax
Flora of Malawi: Psydrax
Flora of Mozambique: Psydrax
Flora of Zimbabwe: Psydrax

External websites:

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

Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Genus page: Psydrax.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1401, retrieved 28 March 2024

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