8352.040 Keetia E. Phillips

Description of the genus

Climbing shrubs or lianes. Leaves opposite. Stipules interpetiolar, without a keeled lobe. Inflorescences pedunculate, branched cymes. Flowers 4-6-merous. Calyx: tube ellipsoid to ovoid; limb dentate. Corolla white, cream or yellow with a cylindric tube and reflexed lobes. Anthers exserted but not reflexed. Ovary 2-locular; ovule 1 per loculus. Fruit a 2-seeded drupe, ± 2-lobed and flattened.

Derivation of name: after Johan Diederich Möhr Keet, 1882-1976, a South African forester and plant collector.

Worldwide: 40 species in tropical and South Africa.

Malawi: 4 taxa.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
foetida (Hiern) Bridson	S
gueinzii (Sond.) Bridson	N,C,S	Description, Image
venosa (Oliv.) Bridson	N,S	Description, Image
zanzibarica (Klotzsch) Bridson subsp. cornelioides (De Wild.) Bridson	N,C,S

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Flora of Zimbabwe: Keetia

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Keetia
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