Clutia

hirsuta: covered with long, moderately stiff and not interwoven hairs; hirsute

Perennial herb, up to c. 1 m tall, growing from a woodly rootstock. Stems 1-several unbranched or sparingly branched, more or less densely hairy. Leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, elliptic-(ob)lanceolate, up to 5 × 2 cm, dull green densely hairy on both surfaces, particularly when young; margin entire. Flowers in axillary clusters, yellowish-green, unisexual on different plants. Fruit round, c. 5 mm in diameter, pale green, pubescent.

Dioecious, less often monoecious, trees, shrubs or herbs. Indumentum simple. Leaves simple, alternate, entire. Flowers in axillary fascicles; female flowers sometimes solitary. Male flowers: pedicels jointed; sepals 5, imbricate; petals 5, free, clawed; disk with glands in 1-3 series on the sepals, petals and receptacle; stamens 5; pistillode present. Female flowers: sepals and petals as in male but persistent and hardening in fruit; ovary 3-locular with 1 ovule per loculus; styles 3. Fruit splitting into 3 2-valved cocci. Seeds shiny, black.

frequent

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Clutia is a plant genus of the family Peraceae. It is native to sub-Saharan Africa and to the Arabian Peninsula.

Species Clutia abyssinica - E + SE + S Africa Clutia affinis - southern Africa Clutia africana - Cape Province Clutia alaternoides - Cape Province Clutia alpina - Cape Province Clutia angustifolia - C + SC Africa Clutia benguelensis - Angola Clutia brassii - Malawi Clutia brevifolia - Cape Province Clutia conferta - Malawi Clutia cordata - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal Clutia daphnoides - Cape Province Clutia disceptata - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal Clutia dregeana - Cape Province Clutia eckloniana - Cape Province Clutia ericoides - Cape Province Clutia galpinii - Botswana, Limpopo Clutia govaertsii - Cape Province Clutia heterophylla - Cape Province Clutia hirsuta - southern Africa Clutia × hybrida - KwaZulu-Natal Clutia imbricata - Cape Province Clutia impedita - Cape Province Clutia jaubertiana - Yemen Clutia kamerunica - Cameroon Clutia katharinae - Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal Clutia kilimandscharica - Ethiopia to Zimbabwe Clutia lanceolata - Yemen Clutia laxa - Eswatini, South Africa Clutia marginata - Cape Province Clutia monticola - southern Africa Clutia myricoides - Ethiopia, Yemen, Saudi Arabia Clutia nana - Lesotho, South Africa Clutia natalensis - Lesotho, South Africa Clutia ovalis - Cape Province Clutia paxii - Burundi to Zimbabwe Clutia pentheriana - Cape Province Clutia platyphylla - Cape Province Clutia polifolia - Cape Province Clutia polyadenia - Tanzania Clutia polygonoides - Cape Province Clutia pterogona - Cape Province Clutia pubescens - Cape Province Clutia pulchella - southern Africa Clutia punctata - Zimbabwe Clutia richardiana - Eritrea, Ethiopia, Yemen Clutia rubricaulis - Cape Province Clutia sericea - Cape Province Clutia sessilifolia - Zimbabwe Clutia stuhlmannii - Tanzania, Burundi Clutia swynnertonii - Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique Clutia thunbergii - Cape Province Clutia timpermaniana - Congo Clutia tomentosa - Cape Province Clutia virgata - Eswatini, South Africa Clutia whytei - Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia formerly included

moved to other genera (Bridelia Cleistanthus Croton Ditaxis Lachnostylis Phyllanthus Pseudophyllanthus Sauropus Trigonostemon )

C. acuminata - Lachnostylis hirta C. androgyna - Sauropus androgynus C. berberifolia - Phyllanthus calycinus C. berteroana - Ditaxis polygama C. cascarilla - Croton eluteria C. collina - Cleistanthus collinus C. diversifolia - Cleistanthus diversifolius C. eluteria - Croton eluteria C. hirta - Lachnostylis hirta C. monoica - Cleistanthus monoicus C. oblongifolia - Cleistanthus oblongifolius C. ovalis (E.Mey. ex Sond.) Scheele 1853 not Sond. 1850 - Pseudophyllanthus ovalis C. patula - Cleistanthus patulus C. retusa - Bridelia retusa C. scandens - Bridelia stipularis C. semperflorens - Trigonostemon semperflorens C. sempervirens - Trigonostemon semperflorens C. spinosa - Bridelia retusa C. squamosa - Bridelia retusa C. stipularis - Bridelia stipularis