8351.030 Tapiphyllum Robyns

Description of the genus

Shrub or small tree, the leaves, young shoots and inflorescences characteristically covered with dense velvety tomentum. Stipules connate with a linear apex. Leaves opposite (in ours), markedly discolorous. Flowers in subsessile axillary cymes. Calyx lobes 5. Corolla yellow to green, tube cylindric, lobes reflexed. Anthers ± exserted. Ovary 4-5(-6)-locular. Stigmatic club 4-5-lobed. Fruit ± spherical with 3-5 pyrenes.

Worldwide: c. 20 species in tropical Africa

Zambia: 11 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
burnettii Tennant	N	Mc
cinerascens (Welw. ex Hiern) Robyns var. cinerascens [DD]	N,W,C,E	Nw,N,E,C
cinerascens (Welw.) Robyns var. inaequale (Robyns) Verdc.	N,W,C	Mc,C
cinerascens (Welw.) Robyns var. laetum (Robyns) Verdc. [LR-lc]	N,E	N
cinerascens (Welw. ex Hiern) Robyns var. A	W	Nw
cinerascens (Welw. ex Hiern) Robyns var. richardsiae (Robyns) Verdc.[LR-lc]	N	N
cistifolium (Hiern) Robyns var. latifolium Verdc. [DD]	W	Nw
discolor (De Wild.) Robyns	B,W,C,S	Cb,C,Lk,S,W	Image
molle Robyns [LR-lc]	B	Nw,W
rhodesiacum (Tennant) Bridson [LR-lc]	N,C	N,C,Lk	Description
velutinum (Hiern) Robyns	N,C,S	Lp,Lk,S	Description, Image

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