Funtumia
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Description:
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Latex white. Leaves opposite. Inflorescences cymose, congested, terminal and axillary. Sepals free, thick. Corolla lobes overlapping to the right. Anthers sagittate at the base. Disk present, 5-lobed. Fruit of 2 stiff woody follicles, fused at the base. Seed bearing long hairs.
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Funtumia:
Funtumia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1900. It is native to Africa.[1]
- Species[1]
- Funtumia africana (Benth.) Stapf - widespread from Senegal to Tanzania, south to Zimbabwe
- Funtumia elastica (Preuss) Stapf - widespread from Senegal to Sudan + Tanzania, south to Zaire
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