CLUTIA L. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Carter (Euphorbia, Monadenium), M. G. Gilbert (Acalypha, Andrachne, Antidesma, Bridelia, Caperonia, Cephalocroton, Chrozophora, Clutia, Dalechampia, Flueggea, Givotia, Manihot, Meineckia, Micrococca, Oldfieldia, Phyllanthus, Ricinus, Suregada, Tragia), and M. Thulin (Croton, Drypetes, Erythrococca, Excoecaria, Jatropha, Spirostachys and Thecacoris) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CLUTIA L. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1753)
Cluytia Ait. [family EUPHORBIACEAE], (1789).
Information
Small trees, shrubs or woody herbs; indumentum of simple hairs. Leaves alternate; stipules small or absent. Usually dioecious; flowers in axillary clusters. Male flowers: pedicels articulated; sepals 5, imbricate, each with 2–7 glands at base on inside; petals 5, imbricate; stamens 5, inserted on column; disc of 5–many free glands; pistillode present. Female flowers: pedicels not articulated; petals and sepals as in male but accrescent in fruit; disc-glands 1-seriate at base of sepals; ovary 3-celled, ovules solitary; styles bifid. Fruit a spherical capsule. Seeds ovoid, glossy black; caruncle present.
Range
An African genus of some 70 species, mostly in S Africa, one species extending into tropical Arabia
CLUTIA L. [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
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