- Family:
- Apocynaceae Juss.
Pachypodium Lindl.

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Apocynaceae, A. J. M. Leeuwenberg & F. K. Kupicha et al. Flora Zambesiaca 7:2. 1985
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs or small trees with thick succulent trunk and stems.
- Morphology General Exudate
- Latex present.
- Morphology General Spines
- Conspicuous ternate spines (the central one often very reduced or absent) present at each node.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves alternate or spirally arranged.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Cymes terminal, sessile or pedunculate, few–many-flowered; flowers usually showy, pink, purple, yellow or partly white.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx lobes imbricate, free almost to the base.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla hypocrateriform to subcampanulate, the tube constricted near the base, tubular to campanulate above; lobes contorted, overlapping to the right.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens inserted above the constriction; anthers subsessile, conniving in a cone, the fertile thecae confined to the upper part of the anther below which a brush-like retinacle projects inwards from the connective, adhering to the clavuncle.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Disc
- Disc cupular, lobed or replaced by 5 scale-like processes.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary of 2 free carpels each containing ∞ ovules on the ventral placenta; style slender, cylindric; clavuncle annular, style 2-lobed.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit of 2 follicles.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds ∞, ovate to oblong with an apical coma, endosperm scanty or absent.
Native to:
Angola, Cape Provinces, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
- Pachypodium ambongense Poiss.
- Pachypodium baronii Costantin & Bois
- Pachypodium bispinosum (L.f.) A.DC.
- Pachypodium brevicaule Baker
- Pachypodium decaryi Poiss.
- Pachypodium densiflorum Baker
- Pachypodium eburneum Lavranos & Rapanarivo
- Pachypodium enigmaticum Pavelka, Prokes, V.Vlk, Lavranos, Zídek & Ramav.
- Pachypodium geayi Costantin & Bois
- Pachypodium horombense Poiss.
- Pachypodium inopinatum Lavranos
- Pachypodium lamerei Drake
- Pachypodium lealii Welw.
- Pachypodium menabeum Leandri
- Pachypodium mikea Lüthy
- Pachypodium namaquanum (Wyley ex Harv.) Welw.
- Pachypodium rosulatum Baker
- Pachypodium rutenbergianum Vatke
- Pachypodium saundersii N.E.Br.
- Pachypodium sofiense (Poiss.) H.Perrier
- Pachypodium succulentum (L.f.) Sweet
- Pachypodium windsorii Poiss.
Pachypodium Lindl. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Edwards's Bot. Reg. 16: t. 1321 (1830)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Bot. Reg.: t. 1321 (1830).
- Pichon in Mem. Inst. Sci. Madag., Sér. B, 2: 98 (1949).
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Flora Zambesiaca
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