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Adansonia L.

Baobab (en), Baobab (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Malvales > Malvaceae

Characteristics

Soft-wooded trees, often of great girth. Leaves digitate; leaflets 3-9, entire, the innermost larger than the outer ones. Flowers axillary and solitary, large, pendulous; pedicels with 2 bracteoles. Calyx deeply 5-lobed, villous inside. Petals 5, oblong. Stamens many, the filaments united into a tube in their lower part; anthers reniform. Ovary 5-10-locular, with numerous ovules; stigma 5-10-lobed. Fruit woody, indehiscent, with many seeds embedded in a floury pulp. Seeds reniform or globose; hilum lateral; testa thick, endosperm thin; cotyledons contorted.
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Seeds many, embedded in a pulpy or floury matrix; endosperm in a very thin layer; cotyledons contorted.
Stamens ?, united into a tube below; anthers reniform and often somewhat coiled.
Flowers large, solitary in the leaf-axils; pedicels with 2 bracteoles.
Ovary 5–10-locular, loculi multiovulate; stigma 5–10-lobed.
Fruit indehiscent, woody, oblong-cylindric to globose.
Leaves digitately 3–9-foliolate, leaflets entire.
Calyx deeply 5-lobed, villous inside.
Trees, trunk often of great girth.
Petals 5.
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Foliage retention deciduous
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Germination duration (days) 21 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Germination treatment soaking
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Images

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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:25773-1
WFO ID wfo-4000000560
COL ID NYL
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 446796
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Baobab Adansonia

Lower taxons

Adansonia fony Adansonia grandidieri Adansonia gregorii Adansonia madagascariensis Adansonia perrieri Adansonia suarezensis Adansonia za Adansonia digitata
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