Turraea
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Turraea is a genus of plants in family Meliaceae, native throughout of Old World Tropics.
Read about Turraea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Turraea (named for Giorgio della Torre or Turra, 1607-1688, botanist of Padua, Italy). Meliaceae. Trees or shrubs, sometimes grown in the greenhouse in the North; in the South used as outdoor ornamentals. Leaves alternate, petioled, entire or obtusely lobed: peduncles axillary, few-fld. and many-bracted: fls. elongated, white; calyx 4-5-toothed or parted; petals 4-5, elongated, free, twisted; staminal tube 8-10-toothed, anthers 8-10; disk annular; ovary oblong, 5-10-20-celled; ovules 2, superposed in each cell: caps. 5- to many-celled, loculicidally 5- to many-valved.— About 73 species, Trop. and S. Afr., Trop. Asia, and Austral. CH
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Species
It contains approximately 70 species, including:
- Turraea adjanohounii, Aké Assi
- Turraea kimbozensis, Cheek
- Turraea socotrana, White
Turraea abyssinica Hochst.
Turraea anomala (O. Hoffm.) Harms
Turraea fockei Buchenau
Turraea floribunda Hochst.
Turraea geayi Danguy
Turraea humberti Danguy
Turraea lanceolata Cav.
Turraea longifolia C. DC.
Turraea mombassana
Turraea nilotica Kotschy & Peyr.
Turraea obovata Gürke
- Turraea obtusifolia Hochst.
Turraea pervillei Baill.
Turraea pubescens Hell.
Turraea rhombifolia Baker
Turraea richardii Baill.
Turraea robusta
Turraea rostrata C. DC.
Turraea sericea Sm.
Turraea thouvenotii Danguy
Turraea venulosa Baker
Turraea virens L.
Turraea wakefieldii Oliv.
Turraea zambesica Sprague & Hutch. ex Hutch.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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