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Connarus

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Connarus paniculatus 13.JPG

|image_caption = Fruits of Connarus paniculatus

|taxon = Connarus

|authority = L. {{R|POWO}}

|subdivision_ranks = Species

|subdivision = See text

|type_species = Connarus monocarpos

|type_species_authority = L. {{R|TROPICOS}}

|synonyms =

  • Anisostemon {{small|Turcz.}}
  • Canicidia {{small|Vell.}}
  • Cynotoxicum {{small|Vell.}}
  • Erythrostigma {{small|Hassk.}}
  • Omphalobium {{small|Gaertn.}}
  • Tapomana {{small|Adans.}}
  • Tricholobus {{small|Blume}}

|synonyms_ref = {{R|POWO}}

}}

Connarus is a genus of plants in the family Connaraceae with a pan-tropical distribution.

Description

Plants in this genus are vines, shrubs or small trees. Leaves are compound, either trifoliate or imparipinnate. The inflorescences are panicles, usually {{botanygloss|terminal}} or {{botanygloss|axil|axillary}}, individual flowers are bisexual (i.e. each having both male and female organs), 5-merous (with five parts), and covered with glands; petals are free of each other, stamens 10 in two whorls, the inner whorl shorter, carpels 1. The fruit are flattened follicles, often with a {{botanygloss|stipe}} at the base and a small beak at the apex, opening on a longitudinal suture. Seeds 1, black with a fleshy yellow sarcotesta.{{R|FGVP|LEMMENS|TONG|TFSS}}

Distribution and habitat

Connarus species are distributed throughout the tropics of Africa, Asia and the Americas, and extends into some temperate areas as well (southern Brazil and southern China).{{R|POWO|GBIF}}

Species

{{As of|2025|2}}, Plants of the World Online accepts the following 106 species:{{R|POWO}}

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References

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{{cite web |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30015418-2 |title=Connarus L. |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |year=2025 |access-date=9 February 2025}}

{{cite book |last1=Lemmens |first1=R.H.M.J. |last2=Breteler |first2=F.J. |last3=Jongkind |first3=C.C.H. |editor1-last=Kubitzki |editor1-first=K. |title=Flowering Plants · Dicotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 6 |date=2004 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |pages=74–81 |chapter=Connaraceae |doi=10.1007/978-3-662-07257-8_9|isbn=978-3-642-05714-4 }}

{{cite book |last1=Lemmens |first1=R.H.M.J. |editor1-last=Breteler |editor1-first=F.J. |title=The Connaraceae - a taxonomic study with emphasis on Africa |date=1989 |publisher=Agricultural University |location=Wageningen, The Netherlands |isbn=90-6754-158-3 |page=242 |chapter=Connarus}}

{{cite book |last1=Jennings |first1=Laura V. S. |editor1-last=Utteridge |editor1-first=Timothy M. A. |editor2-last=Jennings |editor2-first=Laura V. S. |title=Trees of New Guinea |date=2022 |publisher=Kew Publishing |isbn=978-1-84246-750-3 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/374740026 |format=PDF |chapter=Oxalidales |page=216}}

{{Cite book |last1=Tipot |first1=Lesmy |date=1995 |chapter=Connaraceae |editor1-last=Soepadmo |editor1-first=E. |editor2-last=Wong |editor2-first=K.M. |title=Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak |volume=1 |pages=189–195 |publisher=Sabah Forestry Department, Malaysia; Forest Research Institute, Malasia; Sarawak Forestry Department, Malaysia |isbn=983-9592-34-3 |url=https://myflora.frim.gov.my/publications2.cfm?isbn=983-9592-34-3 |accessdate=10 February 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927074942/http://www.chm.frim.gov.my/Resources/Publications/Books/Floras/Tree-Flora-of-Sabah-and-Sarawak.aspx |archive-date=27 September 2013 |url-status=live }}

{{cite web |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/3032531 |title=Connarus L. |website=Global Biodiversity Information Facility |year=2025 |access-date=10 February 2025}}

{{cite web |title=!Connarus L. |url=https://www.tropicos.org/name/40013310 |website=Tropicos |publisher=Missouri Botanical Garden |access-date=10 February 2025}}

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Category:Connaraceae

Category:Oxalidales genera