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Kleinhovia hospita L.

Synonym:   No synonyms are recorded for this name.

STERCULIACEAE

Local Names : Guest Tree.

Flowering Period : March to September.

Distribution : Indo-Malesia and Tropical Africa

Uses:   Ornamental, Skin infection cure.

Exotic : Yes

Medium-sized trees. Leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular, cordate at base, entire at margin, acuminate at apex. Flowers in large terminal panicles. Sepals 5, linear-lanceolate. Petals 5, unequal, shorter than sepals, rosy. Staminal tube adnate to gynophore with a 5-fid cup at top, each segment with 3 anthers; staminodes 5. Ovary 5-loculed; style slender. Capsules pyriform, inflated, membranous, loculicidal.

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