8283.110 Coddia Verdc.

Description of the genus

Unarmed shrub or small tree. Leaves and flowers borne on short lateral shoots. Leaves small, lamina narrowing gradually into the petiole. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous, solitary, subterminal with 1-3 at ends of the lateral shoots. Calyx tube ellipsoid; limb-tube campanulate. Corolla tube funnel-shaped, strongly narrowed at the base; lobes 5 slightly shorter than the tube. Anthers linear. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 5-8. Fruit a small berry, 10-ribbed, crowned by the persistent calyx.

Derivation of name: After Dr L.E.W. Codd, (1908-1999), botanist and ex-Director of the Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria.

Worldwide: Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa (Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape) and Eswatini

Botswana: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
rudis (E. Mey. ex Harv.) Verdc.		Description, Image

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