- Family:
- Malvaceae Juss.
Triplochiton K.Schum.

[FZ]
Sterculiaceae, H. Wild. Flora Zambesiaca 1:2. 1961
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees with petiolate, palmately lobed leaves; stipules present.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers bisexual, in reduced axillary cymes or many-flowered panicles; bracts present and also 3 bracteoles forming a deciduous involucre beneath the calyx.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx campanulate with 5 valvate lobes.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals 5, with a contorted aestivation, tomentose, with a basal claw.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androgynophore
- Androgynophore conspicuous.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium
- Stamens many; staminodes 5, ovate, with a contorted aestivation.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary of 5 coherent carpels and with 5 coherent styles; ovules c. 12, 2-seriate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit of 5 samara-like, single-seeded carpels each with a unilaterally produced wing.
Native to:
Benin, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Triplochiton K.Schum. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 28: 330 (1900)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 28: 330 (1900).
Flora Zambesiaca
- in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 28: 330 (1900) now. conserv.
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Flora Zambesiaca
Flora Zambesiaca
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0