4800.000 Blighia K. König

Description of the genus

Shrubs or trees. Leaves paripinnate with 2-5 leaflets. Inflorescence an axillary raceme-like thyrse. Flowers actinomorphic. Sepals 5, connate. Petals present, well-developed, not or scarcely exceeding the sepals, 5, pouch-like. Ovary 3-locular; each loculus of ovary with 1 ovule Fruit a 3-lobed, 3-winged dehiscent capsule. Seed with a fleshy arillode enclosing the base.

Worldwide: 4 species in tropical Africa

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
unijugata Baker[LR-nt]	N,W	Cb,Lp,N	Description, Image

Other sources of information about Blighia:

Our websites:

Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Blighia
Flora of Malawi: Blighia
Flora of Mozambique: Blighia
Flora of Zimbabwe: Blighia

External websites:

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

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: Blighia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=910, retrieved 16 April 2024

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