Description
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Evergreen trees or shrubs. Latex white. Leaves opposite. Inflorescences cymose, congested, terminal and axillary. Sepals free, thick. Corolla lobes overlapping to the right. Anthers sagittate at the base. Disk present, 5-lobed. Fruit of 2 stiff woody follicles, fused at the base. Seed bearing long hairs.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Funtumia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1116
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Funtumia: Brief Summary
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Funtumia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1900. It is native to Africa.
Species
Funtumia africana (Benth.) Stapf - widespread from Senegal to Tanzania, south to Zimbabwe
Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf - widespread from Senegal to Sudan + Tanzania, south to Zaire
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