5284.000 Oncoba Forssk.

Description of the genus

Trees or shrubs, spiny (in ours). Leaves petiolate. Flowers large and showy, solitary and terminal or lateral on short shoots, bisexual. Sepals 3-4. Petals present, 5-10 or more, exceeding the sepals. Stamens many. Ovary 1-locular, with 2-10 multiovulate parietal placentas. Fruit indehiscent, smooth or slightly ridged with a hard shell, many-seeded.

Derivation of name: from the Arabic name onkob for this genus.

Worldwide: Widespread in tropical Africa, extending to South Africa and Arabia.

Zambia: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Provinces	Content
spinosa Forssk.	B,N,W,C,S	Nw,N,Lk,S	Description, Image

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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Oncoba

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