Description
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Shrubs or small trees. Leaves opposite or whorled; lamina long-acuminate, often with domatia; petiole flattened, channelled. Inflorescences axillary or terminal, reduced (in ours) to 1-3 flowers in each axil. Flowers bisexual, heterostylous. Calyx short, dentate or lobed. Corolla salver-shaped, white to cream, densely hairy in the upper half within.
Ovary 2-3-locular; ovules numerous in each loculus. Fruit a spherical berry. Seeds numerous.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pauridiantha Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1374
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Pauridiantha: Brief Summary
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Pauridiantha is an afrotropical genus of plant in family Rubiaceae.
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