
Apodytes dimidiate subsp. dimidiate General Info – summary This variable evergreen Tree with smoothish bark may reach 20m high. Alternate spirally arranged simple Leaves with entire margins. Small, cream or white, regular, scented and 5-merous Flowers develop in cymose panicles. Free petals with attached stamens. Stamens 5. 1-locular pistil & a superior ovary. Small kidney-shaped Fruit is […]

Antidesma venosum General Info – summary This dioecious Tree with its greyish brown, rough, flaky bark is usually up to 8m high or is a shrub. The large alternate Leaves are simple, entire & with large stipules. 2 pairs of veins arise close to the base. The attractive, scented Flowers lack petals. Yellow males are […]

Anthocleista grandiflora General Info – summary This tall straight Tree has a light grey usually unbranched stem to 35m high. The stem ends with huge stiff, leathery, simple, decussate, and stipule lacking Leaves. Initially white, bisexual, regular, 4-merous Flowers resembling white crowns occur in cymose panicles. Stamens have a united base. The single pistil has […]

Anastrabe integerrima General Info – summary This Tree is up to 12m high with a trunk up to 16cm wide. Stiff, opposite, decussate and shiny Leaves are simple, opposite and entire. Interesting, yellow, bisexual zygomorphic Flowers are in cymes. The corolla is 2 lipped and the 4 stamens have didynamous anthers. A staminode replaces the […]

Alsophila dregei General Info – summary This spineless, unbranched and erect Fern caudex is furry and up to 7m high. Long, arching, elliptic tripinnate Fronds fall without leaving scars. Reproductive Structure has no flowers or seeds. Haploid sori house dehiscent haploid sporangia with wind dispersed diploid Spores that grow into a tiny, haploid, free-living Prothallus […]

Aloidendron dichotomum General Info – summary This Tree is up to 7m high with a narrowing trunk. The dense rounded crown has simple spear-shaped Leaves with an amplexicaul base and marginal yellow spines. Terminal, cylindrical, 3-merous Flowers are in racemes. Each has tepals in 2 whorls. 6 exerted stamens have subulate filaments. A superior ovary […]