Magnistipula Engl.

Description of the genus

Trees, shrubs and geoxylic suffrutices. Leaves simple, entire, alternate, coriaceous, brittle. Lower leaf surface glabrous or with a few strigose hairs. Flowers strongly zygomorphic. Receptacle tube always curved, obliquely campanulate., slightly to strongly gibbous, nearly always markedly oblique at the mouth, always longer than the sepals. Drupe fleshy; endosperm hairy inside, on germination breaking up in an irregular manner.

Worldwide: About 10 species in tropical Africa and 2 in Madagascar.

DRC: 2 taxa.

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Species	Botanical divisions	Content
butayei De Wild. subsp. bangweolensis (R.E.Fr.) F.White [NrEnd]		Description, Image
butayei De Wild. subsp. montana (Hauman) F.White

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