4905.000 Helinus E. Mey. ex Endl.

Description of the genus

Unarmed climbing shrubs. Branches with coiled tendrils. Stipules subulate, caducous. Leaves alternate; lamina with nerves arranged pinnately, margin entire. Inflorescence a 1-several-flowered pedunculate axillary umbel. Flowers bisexual. Sepals 5. Petals 5, white to yellowish-green, cucullate. Disk flat, filling the receptacle, annular. Ovary inferior, 3-locular. Fruit a capsule, splitting into 3 tardily dehiscent cocci. Seeds 3; testa black, shining.

Worldwide: 5 species in the tropics: 3 in southern Africa, 1 Madagascar and 1 in NW India

Botswana: 2 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
integrifolius (Lam.) Kuntze	N	Description, Image
spartioides (Engl.) Schinz ex Engl.	SW,SE

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Flora of Burundi: Helinus
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Flora of Malawi: Helinus
Flora of Mozambique: Helinus
Flora of Zambia: Helinus
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