Brexia
Brexia is a dense evergreen shrub or small tree of usually around 5 m high, with alternately set, simple, leathery leaves with a short leaf stem and lanceolate to inverted egg-shaped leaf blades. The pentamerous flowers occur in cymes. The petals are greenish white, the samens are alternating with wide, incised staminodes. The superior ovary develops in a long ribbed fruit. Brexia naturally grows on the coast of East Africa, on Madagascar, the Comoros and Seychelles....
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Brexia madagascariensis
speciesBrexia madagascariensis
Brexia montana
speciesBrexia montana
Brexia humbertii
speciesBrexia humbertii
Brexia alaticarpa
speciesBrexia alaticarpa
Brexia australis
speciesBrexia australis
Brexia marioniae
speciesBrexia marioniae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 184517.