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Karomia Dop
EOL Text
Trees or shrubs, unarmed or with woody spines. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, dentate or lobed. Calyx often coloured; limb rotate, 5-lobed, very accrescent and becoming papery with raised reticulation in fruit. Corolla strongly zygomorphic, appearing 1-lipped, the lip 5-lobed. Stamens 4, didynamous, long-exserted. Ovary hairy. Fruit dry, hard, turbinate or obconical, sometimes strongly 4-lobed above, separating at maturity into 4 mericarps.
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Rights holder/Author | Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings, Flora of Zimbabwe |
Source | http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1214 |
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:3
Specimens with Sequences:6
Specimens with Barcodes:6
Species:2
Species With Barcodes:2
Public Records:1
Public Species:1
Public BINs:0
Karomia is a genus of plants in the Lamiaceae, first described in 1932. It is native to eastern and southern Africa, Madagascar, and Vietnam.[1]
- Species[1]
- Karomia fragrans Dop - Vietnam
- Karomia gigas (Faden) Verdc. - Kenya, Tanzania
- Karomia humbertii (Moldenke) R.Fern. - Madagascar
- Karomia macrocalyx (Baker) R.Fern. - Madagascar
- Karomia madagascariensis (Moldenke) R.Fern. - Madagascar
- Karomia microphylla (Moldenke) R.Fern. - Madagascar
- Karomia mira (Moldenke) R.Fern. - Madagascar
- Karomia speciosa (Hutch. & Corbishley) R.Fern. - Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa
- Karomia tettensis (Klotzsch) R.Fern. - Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia
References[edit]
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Rights holder/Author | Wikipedia |
Source | http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karomia&oldid=625368197 |