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Common name: Chassalia
Botanical name: Chassalia spp. Family: Rubiaceae (coffee family)
This genus consists of some 40 to 50 species, with most belonging to tropical
regions of Africa and Madagascar.
They are shrubs, more rarely small trees or grasses. Leaves are opposite, or
rarely in 3. Stipules are interpetiolar, sometimes fused in a sheath, entire
or not, often associated with hairs at the lateral internal base and are
persistent. Flowers are hermaphrodites. Heterostyles are often small in a
branched inflorescence from which each unit is usually a small capitulum.
Some species have pedicilate flowers. Bracts are small.
Identification credit: K. Karthigeyan
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