Genus:
Apodytes
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About 5-17 species, native to Africa, Madagascar and Australasia, with three
species native to southern Africa.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of
Zimbabwe and
Flora of Mozambique.
Apodytes abbottii
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Apodytes dimidiata
(White pear)
See
Flora of Zimbabwe. |
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Apodytes geldenhuysii |
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Publications
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Potgieter, M.J. & Van Wyk, A.E. 1994. Fruit structure
of the southern African species of Apodytes E. Mey. ex
Arn. (Icacinaceae). Botanical Journal of the Linnean
Society 115: 221–233.
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Van Wyk, A.E. & Potgieter, M.J. 1994. Two new
species of Apodytes (Icacinaceae) in southern Africa.
South African Journal of Botany 60: 231–239.
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