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Published In: Monadelphiae Classis Dissertationes Decem 2: [App. 1]. 1786. (Jan-Apr 1786) (Diss.) Name publication detail
 

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General/Distribution: A large genus of c. 350 species, mainly centered in Africa and Madagascar. Introduced and cultivated in other countries. Represented in Pakistan by 5 cultivated species.

 

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Trees or shrubs. Leaves 5-costate, cordate, usually palmately lobed. Inflorescence an axillary or terminal, much branched, pedunculate cyme. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic; bract 3, deciduous or absent. Sepals 5, united at the base, eventually reflexed. Petals 5, persistent, imbricate. Stamens 10-20, alternating with 5, strap-shaped staminodes, both monadelphous at the base, anthers parallel. Carpels 2-5, syncarpous; ovary sessile, 2-5-loculed, each locule 2-3-ovuled; style simple; stigmas 2-5, patent. Capsule loculicidally dehiscent, as many loculed as ovary, locules 1-2-seeded. Seeds endospermic.
 

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1 Peduncle less than 10 cm long. Fruiting style c.1 cm long. Stigma usually included (2)
+ Peduncle more than 20 cm long. Fruiting style c. 2 cm long. Stigma exserted Dombeya wallichii
2 (1) Leaves unlobed or obscurely lobed. Inflorescence an umbellate cyme. Flowers white, bracts linear or awl-shaped (3)
+ Leaves 2-5-lobed. Inflorescence a branched cyme (not umbellate). Flowers pinkish; bracts ovate or absent (4)
3 (2) Flowers sweet-scented. Capsule globose Dombeya natalensis
+ Flowers not scented. Capsule oblong Dombeya mastersii
4 (2) Leaf bases deeply cordate, lower surface with prominent rusty pubescent veins. Bracts absent Dombeya spectabilis
+ Leaf bases shallowly cordate, lower surface velvety. Bracts ovate, acuminate Dombeya acutangula
 
 
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