2573.000 Antizoma Miers

Leistner, O.A. (ed.) (2000) Seed plants of southern Africa: families and genera Strelitzia 10

Description of the genus

Subshrubs, climbing or erect. Leaves simple, often with a dorsal basal spur, which is hard, spine-like and persistent, not peltate. Male inflorescences of few-flowered cymes. Male flowers: sepals 4, sometimes white woolly; petals 4, fused into a saucer-shaped corolla; stamens 4-10, fused into a synandrium. Female inflorescences of paired or solitary flowers. Female flowers: sepals 2; petals 2; staminodes 0; carpel 1. Drupe ± ovoid; endocarp horseshoe-shaped with warty ridges.

Worldwide: 2 species in arid parts of southern Africa (Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and western Zimbabwe)

Botswana: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
angustifolia (Burch.) Miers ex Harv.	SE	Description, Image

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Antizoma
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