
Kirkia wilmsii General Info – Summary This monoecious Tree has underground tubers, smooth grey bark and may reach 18m high. Impressive delicate, feathery, imparipinnate Leaves lack stipules, are deciduous and produce brilliant autumn colours. The regular unisexual 4-merous Flowers occur in panicles. Male: 4 stamens. Female: superior ovary + 4 styles and staminodes are present. […]

Kiggelaria africana General Info – Summary This unarmed dioecious shrub/Tree has grey smooth bark and is up to 2om high. It is widespread in South Africa. Simple, leathery Leaves lack stipules and domatia may be present. Small 5-merous, unisexual, regular Flowers on pedicels. Stamens + short filaments. Single pistil ends with 5 stigmas. The […]

Kigelia africana Photo 491. 2014/09/10. Tshokwane KNP. Photo: David Becking. General Info – Summary This fascinating Tree with its grey/brown, straight stout trunk may reach 15+m high. The imparipinnate Leaves are frost sensitive. The paired leaflets are asymmetric. The impressive large, deep red, bisexual, zygomorphic Flowers develop in panicles and have didynamous stamens and 1 staminode. The […]

Khaya anthotheca General Info – Summary This impressive, large monoecious Tree has a much-branched crown up to 60m high & a trunk diameter up to 1,2m. The paripinnate Leaves lack stipules and have 2-8 pairs of asymmetric, entire leaflets. The white, small, unisexual Flowers are regular and develop in panicles. Male flowers have joined filaments. Female flowers […]

Justicia adhatodoides General Info – Summary This sturdy shrub or Tree to 6m has brittle branches. Simple, decurrent Leaves to 23 x 15cm + entire margins. Many white large zygomorphic bisexual 5-merous Flowers in racemes: have long peduncles. Two stamens, no staminodes. The superior ovary has 2 equal branched styles. Pollinated by carpenter bees. Fruit is […]