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  4503.000 Monadenium Pax


    Literature

*Carter, S. & Leach, L.C. (2001) * Euphorbiaceae: subfamily
Euphorbioideae: tribe Euphorbieae /FZ /*9(5)*


    Description of the genus

Small trees, shrubs or perennial herbs /with milky latex/. /Stems and
branches succulent./ Stipules 0 or modified as glands or spines. Leaves
alternate, fleshy. Inflorescences axillary with sessile cyathia in
dichotomously branching cymes, rarely solitary; bracts paired,
persistent. /Cyathium with glands forming an entire rim, notched on the
lower side/, surrounding 5-fringed lobes. Male flowers in 5 groups,
bracteolate. Female flower stalked; ovary 3-locular; styles 3 with 2-fid
stigmas. /Fruit/ a 3-lobed capsule, /exserted through the notch in the
glandular rim/, dehiscent. Seeds with a cap-like pale yellow caruncle,
rarely ecarunculate.

*Worldwide:* Over 70 spp, occurring in eastern tropical Africa from
Somalia in the north to the northern province of South Africa and west
into Angola

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*Species*	*Links to maps*	*FZ divisions*	*Content*
kimberleyana <species.php?species_id=136470> G. Will.[End]
<../endemic.php>[DD] <../reddata.php>	Altitude
<map-display.php?species_id=136470&map_type=1> Rainfall
<map-display.php?species_id=136470&map_type=2> Geology
<map-display.php?species_id=136470&map_type=3>	E	
lugardiae <species.php?species_id=136480> N.E. Br.	Altitude
<map-display.php?species_id=136480&map_type=1> Rainfall
<map-display.php?species_id=136480&map_type=2> Geology
<map-display.php?species_id=136480&map_type=3>	NWES	
spinulosum <species.php?species_id=136490> S. Carter	Altitude
<map-display.php?species_id=136490&map_type=1> Rainfall
<map-display.php?species_id=136490&map_type=2> Geology
<map-display.php?species_id=136490&map_type=3>	N	


    Other sources of information about Monadenium:

*ePIC* (electronic Plant Information Center): Monadenium/ /
<http://epic.kew.org/searchepic/summaryquery.do?scientificName=Monadenium&searchAll=true>
*Flora Zambesiaca* web site: Monadenium/ /
<http://epic.kew.org/searchepic/summaryquery.do?scientificName=Monadenium&categories=flora&detailDatasource=efz>
*Google*: Web/ / <http://www.google.co.zw/search?hl=en&q=Monadenium> -
Images/ / <http://images.google.co.zw/images?hl=en&q=Monadenium> -
Scholar/ / <http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Monadenium&hl=en>
*GRIN* (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants
report for Monadenium/ /
<http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genusfamfind.pl?genus=Monadenium&ferns=ferns&gymno=gymno&angio=angio>
*IPNI* (International Plant Names Index): Monadenium/ /
<http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_genus=Monadenium&find_isAPNIRecord=on&find_isGCIRecord=on&find_isIKRecord=on&output_format=normal>
*Kew Herbarium catalogue*: Monadenium/ /
<http://epic.kew.org/searchepic/summaryquery.do?scientificName=Monadenium&categories=colln&detailDatasource=herbcat>
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*Copyright: Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten, 2002-8*

*Hyde, M.A. & Wursten, B.* *(2008)*. /Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page:
Monadenium./
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=877,
retrieved 19 October 2008

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