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Maesa lanceolata

Maesa lanceolata General Info – Summary This smallish Tree with its non-invasive roots has simple Leaves with margins that may be entire or toothed.  Small, sweet-scented, creamy-white, bisexual, actinomorphic and usually 5-meros Flowers are in panicles.  The single pistil has a single chambered, semi-inferior ovary ending in a style + a lobed stigma.  Fruit is a […]

Maerua cafra

Maerua caffra General Info – summary This Tree with its straight trunk and light bark lacks spines and may reach 10 high.  The usually trifoliate compound Leaves are hairless.  White, bisexual, actinomorphic, scented Flowers lack petals and develop at branch ends.  Many stamens unfold as a mass of white filaments.  The single pistil has a […]

Macphersonia hildebrandtii

Mackaya bella

Mackaya bella General Info – Summary This plant is usually a shrub but may be a Tree up to 4m high.  The simple Leaves are up to 17 x 4cm and domatia may be present.  Large attractive, zygomorphic + bell-shaped white, purple veined Flowers in terminal racemes are bisexual: Male – 2 stamens + 2 […]

Loxostylis alata

Loxostylis alata  General Info – Summary Small, endemic, dioecious much branched Tree has grey bark.  Compound imparipinnate Leaves each have a distinctively winged rachis.  Petiolules and stipules are absent.  Regular 5-merous Flowers are in terminal panicles.  Male: 5 unequal stamens.  Female: have staminodes and a superior ovary with 4 styles.  Fruit: a small, red fleshy, […]