Marquesia Gilg

Meerts, P. (2017) Dipterocarpaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale Nouvelle Serie Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique

Description of the genus

Tall trees, with buttresses. Leaves alternate, petiolate, entire, penninerved, with an extra-floral nectary at the base of the midrib on the upper surface; stipules caducous. Flowers in large terminal panicles, radially symmetric, bisexual; sepals 5, petals 5, white; fruit surrounded by the 5 acrescent sepals.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Marquesia
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