Entry | 1 Crateva |
Part of speech | 2 noun |
Explanations in English |
3 Pantropical genus with 10 species; 4 to 6 endemic Malagasy subspecies. Crateva is distributed in humid evergreen forest, as well as dry deciduous forest from sea level to 1,500 m elevation. It can be recognized by its large flowers with free sepals and distinctly clawed petals much longer than the sepals, and large, fleshy to woody, globose to ellipsoid fruits. [2.515] |
Vocabulary |
4 Botany: scientific genera |
Analogs | 5 alakamisy |
Local names of plants |
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Updated on 2024/09/15 |