- Family:
- Boraginaceae Juss.
Cordia L.

[FZ]
Boraginaceae, E. S. Martins (Trichodesma by R. K. Brummit). Flora Zambesiaca 7:4. 1990
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees or shrubs sometimes dioecious.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite, petiolate, entire to coarsely toothed.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Cymes arranged in lax or dense or sometimes very contracted and subglobose panicles, ebracteate, terminal or axillary.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual, actinomorphic, pedicelled or subsessile, the pedicels joined.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx tubular or ± campanulate, sometimes sulcate, usually splitting irregularly, 3-5-toothed, enlarging in fruit.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla 4-5(7)-lobed, funnel-shaped to salver-shaped, white or yellowish; lobes imbricate or subcontorted in bud, shallow and obscure or oblong and conspicuous, patent or recurved at anthesis.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium
- Stamens or staminodes inserted in the corolla tube, as many as the corolla lobes and alternate with them; anthers oblong.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary entire, 4-locular with 1 ovule in each locule (or reduced and abortive in male flowers); style terminal, twice cleft, with stigmatic branches linear or clavate.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit drupaceous, partially or wholly surrounded by the enlarged persistent calyx; stone with 1-4 exalbuminous seeds, cotyledons plicate.
[FTEA]
Boraginaceae, B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1991
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees or shrubs, less often climbers or scramblers
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate or in a few (but sometimes very common species) subopposite, petiolate, simple, often large, entire to crenate-dentate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers mostly white, yellow or orange, hermaphrodite, polygamous or unisexual (plant dioecious), subsessile or pedicellate, borne in terminal or axillary dichotomous corymbs, panicles or subglobose clusters of cymes, the branches scorpioid, without bracts Female with anthers sterile, otherwise similar to ♂ flowers Male flowers with 4–8 stamens, the filaments often hairy at the base; ovary rudimentary but style absent
- sex Male
- Male flowers with 4–8 stamens, the filaments often hairy at the base; ovary rudimentary but style absent
- sex Female
- Female with anthers sterile, otherwise similar to ♂ flowers
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx tubular or campanulate, smooth or with marked ribs, 2–5(–more)-lobed, persistent and accrescent in fruit
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla funnel-shaped or salver-shaped, mostly 5- but sometimes 3–8-lobed; tube short or long, cylindric or widened; lobes erect, spreading or reflexed, imbricate or subcontorted in bud.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens exserted or included, the filaments glabrous or pubescent at the base
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary 4-locular with 1 erect ovule in each locule
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Style terminal, twice bifid (or abnormally twice trifid), the ultimate stigmatic parts of the 4 branches linear to subfoliaceous or terminated by 1 capitate or peltate stigma, rarely with 4 separate styles
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruits ovoid, globose or ellipsoid, included in or sitting in the persistent accrescent cupuliform calyx; endocarp bony with up to 4 locules but only 1–2 fertile
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds without endosperm.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla small to large, salver-shaped to funnel-shaped or subtubular; lobes usually 4–5, spreading or reflexed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens as many as the corolla-lobes, exserted or included
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary 4-celled; style terminal, twice 2-fid or 4-branched; stigmatic areas linear or spathulate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit usually an orange or yellowish drupe with a thin exocarp, a mucilaginous mesocarp, and a woody endocarp, or a hard nut with a corky or woody mesocarp.
- Distribution
- Some 250 species in the tropics, the majority in America.
- Morphology General Habit
- Trees, shrubs, subshrubs or woody climbers, often functionally dioecious
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate or sometimes opposite, entire or toothed
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers bisexual or unisexual, regular, in cymose panicle-, head- or spike-like inflorescences
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx ± tubular-campanulate, smooth to deeply ribbed, 2–5(–10)-lobed, usually persistent, sometimes much enlarged in fruit
Native to:
Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Chad, Chagos Archipelago, Chile Central, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, French Guiana, Gabon, Galápagos, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, Howland-Baker Is., India, Iran, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Line Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritania, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Phoenix Is., Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rwanda, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Texas, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turks-Caicos Is., Tuvalu, Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Wake I., Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
East Aegean Is., Florida, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf States, Iraq, Libya, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Turkey
- Cordia aberrans I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia acutifolia Fresen.
- Cordia affinis Fresen.
- Cordia africana Lam.
- Cordia allartii Killip
- Cordia alliodora (Ruiz & Pav.) Oken
- Cordia americana (L.) Gottschling & J.S.Mill.
- Cordia anabaptista Cham.
- Cordia anisophylla J.S.Mill.
- Cordia aristeguietae G.Agostini
- Cordia aspera G.Forst.
- Cordia aurantiaca Baker
- Cordia balanocarpa Brenan
- Cordia bantamensis Blume
- Cordia bequaertii De Wild.
- Cordia bicolor A.DC.
- Cordia blanchetii A.DC.
- Cordia bogotensis Benth.
- Cordia boissieri A.DC.
- Cordia bordasii Schinini
- Cordia borinquensis Urb.
- Cordia brachytricha Fresen.
- Cordia brasiliensis (I.M.Johnst.) Gottschling & J.S.Mill.
- Cordia brunnea Kurz
- Cordia cabanayensis Gaviria
- Cordia caffra Sond.
- Cordia cardenasiana J.S.Mill.
- Cordia chaetodonta Melch.
- Cordia chamissoniana G.Don
- Cordia cicatricosa L.O.Williams
- Cordia clarkei Brace ex Prain
- Cordia cochinchinensis Gagnep.
- Cordia colimensis I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia collococca L.
- Cordia colombiana Killip
- Cordia copulata Poir.
- Cordia cordiformis I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia correae J.S.Mill.
- Cordia crassifolia Killip
- Cordia crenata Delile
- Cordia crispiflora A.DC.
- Cordia croatii J.S.Mill.
- Cordia curbeloi Alain
- Cordia cymosa (Donn.Sm.) Standl.
- Cordia decandra Hook. & Arn.
- Cordia decipiens I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia dentata Poir.
- Cordia dewevrei De Wild. & T.Durand
- Cordia dichotoma G.Forst.
- Cordia diffusa K.C.Jacob
- Cordia dillenii Spreng.
- Cordia diversifolia Pav. ex A.DC.
- Cordia dodecandra A.DC.
- Cordia dodecandria Sessé & Moc.
- Cordia domestica Roth
- Cordia domingensis Lam.
- Cordia dumosa Alain
- Cordia dwyeri Nowicke
- Cordia ecalyculata Vell.
- Cordia elaeagnoides A.DC.
- Cordia ellenbeckii Gürke ex Vaupel
- Cordia elliptica Sw.
- Cordia ensifolia Urb.
- Cordia eriostigma Pittier
- Cordia exaltata Lam.
- Cordia fallax I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia fanchoniae Feuillet
- Cordia faulknerae Verdc.
- Cordia fischeri Gürke
- Cordia fissistyla Vollesen
- Cordia fitchii Urb.
- Cordia fragrantissima Kurz
- Cordia fulva I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia furcans I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia fusca M.Stapf
- Cordia galeottiana A.Rich.
- Cordia gardneri I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia gentryi J.S.Mill.
- Cordia gerascanthus L.
- Cordia gilletii De Wild.
- Cordia glabrata (Mart.) A.DC.
- Cordia glabrifolia M.Stapf
- Cordia glazioviana (Taub.) Gottschling & J.S.Mill.
- Cordia globifera W.W.Sm.
- Cordia globulifera I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia goeldiana Huber
- Cordia goetzei Gürke
- Cordia gracilipes I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia grandicalyx Oberm.
- Cordia grandis Roxb.
- Cordia guacharaca Gaviria
- Cordia guerkeana Loes.
- Cordia guineensis Thonn.
- Cordia harrisii Urb.
- Cordia hatschbachii J.S.Mill.
- Cordia ignea Urb. & Ekman
- Cordia iguaguana Melch. ex I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia igualensis Bartlett
- Cordia incognita Gottschling & J.S.Mill.
- Cordia insignis Cham.
- Cordia intermedia Fresen.
- Cordia killipiana J.S.Mill.
- Cordia kingstoniana J.S.Mill.
- Cordia koemariae J.S.Mill.
- Cordia laevifrons I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia laevigata Lam.
- Cordia laevior I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia lasiocalyx Pittier
- Cordia lasseri G.Agostini ex Gaviria
- Cordia latiloba I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia leonis (Britton & P.Wilson) Ekman
- Cordia leslieae J.S.Mill.
- Cordia leucosebestena Griseb.
- Cordia liesneri J.S.Mill.
- Cordia lomatoloba I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia longipetiolata Warfa
- Cordia lowryana J.S.Mill.
- Cordia lucidula I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia lutea Lam.
- Cordia macleodii (Griff.) Hook.f. & Thomson
- Cordia macrantha Chodat
- Cordia macrophylla L.
- Cordia macvaughii J.S.Mill.
- Cordia magnoliifolia Cham.
- Cordia mairei Humbert
- Cordia mandimbana E.S.Martins
- Cordia marioniae Feuillet
- Cordia megalantha S.F.Blake
- Cordia megiae J.E.Burrows
- Cordia membranacea A.DC.
- Cordia meridensis Gaviria
- Cordia mexiana I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia mhaya Kerr
- Cordia micayensis Killip
- Cordia micronesica Kaneh. & Hatus.
- Cordia millenii Baker
- Cordia molundensis Mildbr.
- Cordia monoica Roxb.
- Cordia morelosana Standl.
- Cordia mukuensis Taton
- Cordia myxa L.
- Cordia naidophila I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia nervosa Lam.
- Cordia nodosa Lam.
- Cordia oblongifolia Thwaites
- Cordia obovata Balf.f.
- Cordia obtusa Balf.f.
- Cordia ochnacea A.DC.
- Cordia octandra A.DC.
- Cordia oliveri (Britton ex Rusby) Gottschling & J.S.Mill.
- Cordia oncocalyx Allemão
- Cordia panamensis L.Riley
- Cordia panicularis Rudge
- Cordia parvifolia A.DC.
- Cordia perbella Mildbr.
- Cordia perrottetii A.DC.
- Cordia peteri Verdc.
- Cordia pilosa M.Stapf & Taroda
- Cordia pilosissima Baker
- Cordia platythyrsa Baker
- Cordia porcata Nowicke
- Cordia protracta I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia prunifolia I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia pulverulenta (Urb.) Alain
- Cordia quercifolia Klotzsch
- Cordia ramanujamii N.Balach. & Rajendiran
- Cordia restingae M.Stapf
- Cordia rickseckeri Millsp.
- Cordia ripicola I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia rogersii Hutch.
- Cordia rufescens A.DC.
- Cordia saccellia Gottschling & J.S.Mill.
- Cordia sagotii I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia salvadorensis Standl.
- Cordia santacruzensis J.S.Mill. & M.Nee
- Cordia scabra Desf.
- Cordia scabrifolia A.DC.
- Cordia schatziana J.S.Mill.
- Cordia schottiana Fresen.
- Cordia sebestena L.
- Cordia seleriana Fernald
- Cordia sellowiana Cham.
- Cordia senegalensis Juss. ex Poir.
- Cordia sericicalyx A.DC.
- Cordia silvestris Fresen.
- Cordia sinensis Lam.
- Cordia sipapoi Gaviria
- Cordia skutchii I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia somaliensis Baker
- Cordia sonorae Rose
- Cordia splendida Diels
- Cordia sprucei Mez
- Cordia stellifera I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia stenoclada I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia stenoloba Gürke
- Cordia stuhlmannii Gürke
- Cordia subcordata Lam.
- Cordia suckertii Chiov.
- Cordia sulcata A.DC.
- Cordia superba Cham.
- Cordia tacarcunensis J.S.Mill.
- Cordia taguahyensis Vell.
- Cordia tarodae M.Stapf
- Cordia tetrandra Aubl.
- Cordia thaisiana G.Agostini
- Cordia tinifolia Willd. ex Roem. & Schult.
- Cordia toqueve Aubl.
- Cordia torrei E.S.Martins
- Cordia tortuensis Urb. & Ekman
- Cordia trachyphylla Mart.
- Cordia triangularis Urb.
- Cordia trichoclada A.DC.
- Cordia trichocladophylla Verdc.
- Cordia trichotoma (Vell.) Arráb. ex Steud.
- Cordia troyana Urb.
- Cordia truncatifolia Bartlett
- Cordia ucayaliensis (I.M.Johnst.) I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia ulei I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia umbellifera Killip ex G.Agostini
- Cordia uncinulata De Wild.
- Cordia valenzuelana A.Rich.
- Cordia vanhermannii Alain
- Cordia vargasii I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia varroniifolia I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia vestita (A.DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson
- Cordia vignei Hutch. & Dalziel
- Cordia weddellii I.M.Johnst.
- Cordia williamsii G.Agostini ex Gaviria
- Cordia yombomba Vaupel
- Acnadena Raf.
- Ascanica Crantz
- Auxemma Miers
- Borellia Neck.
- Bourgia Scop.
- Calyptracordia Britton
- Carpiphea Raf.
- Catonia Raf.
- Cerdana Ruiz & Pav.
- Cienkowskia Regel & Rach
- Coilanthera Raf.
- Collococcus P.Browne
- Colococca Raf.
- Cordiada Vell.
- Cordiopsis Desv.
- Ectemis Raf.
- Gerascanthus P.Browne
- Gynaion A.DC.
- Hemigymnia Griff.
- Lithocardium L. ex Kuntze
- Macielia Vand.
- Macria Ten.
- Myxa (Endl.) Lindl.
- Novella Raf.
- Paradigma Miers
- Patagonica Boehm.
- Patagonula L.
- Physoclada (DC.) Lindl.
- Pilicordia (A.DC.) Lindl.
- Plethostephia Miers
- Purkinjia C.Presl
- Quarena Raf.
- Rhabdocalyx Lindl.
- Saccellium Bonpl.
- Salimori Adans.
- Sebestena Gaertn.
- Sebestena Boehm.
- Toquera Raf.
- Tsiemtani Adans.
Cordia L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 1987 | Brummitt, R.K. [14980], Malawi | K000285746 | Yes | ||
Eyles, F. [8806], Zimbabwe | 11172.000 | No | |||
Verdcourt, B. [1060], Kenya | 39647.000 | No | |||
Headley, P.M. [223], Ethiopia | 6049.057 | No | |||
Rico, L. [1461], Bolivia | K000295378 | No | |||
Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. [9589], Cameroon | K000029798 | No | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. 9064], India | K001132167 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.], Myanmar | K001132436 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [Cat. no. s.n.] | K001132435 | Yes |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 191 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 4, 2: 6.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 87 (1754).
- Sp. Pl.: 190 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 3, (2006) Author: by A. M. Warfa [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Warfa in Acta Univ. Upsal., Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science 174: 1–78 (1988).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 87 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 190 (1753)
- Warfa, Acta Univ. Upsal. 174: 1–78 (1988)
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