FAGARA L.
Trees or shrubs, armed with prickles. Leaves alternate, imparipinnate. Leaflets in (1-)2-12(or more) pairs, opposite or alternate, sessile or petiolulate, usually ± asymmetric. Inflorescence of panicles or of racemes borne at the base of new branches below the leaves. Flowers unisexual by abortion. Fruit a dehiscent, spherical or subspherical, glandular-foveolate, 1-seeded follicle. Seed ± spherical, black, shiny. Worldwide: c. 250 species in America, Africa and Asia Rwanda: 5 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| chalybeum Engl. var. chalybeum | Image | |
| gilletii (De Wild.) P.G. Waterman | Image | |
| mildbraedii (Engl.) P.G.Waterman | ||
| renieri (G.C.C.Gilbert) P.G.Waterman | ||
| usambarense (Eng.) Kokwaro |