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| Brexia madagascariensis, ↑flower, ↓leaves of a young plant | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Genus: | Brexia Noronha ex Thouars |
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Thomassettia, Venana[2] | |
Brexia is a plant genus assigned to the Celastraceae. It 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 stamens 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. Opinions differ about the number of species in Brexia. Sometimes the genus is regarded monotypic, B. madagascariensis being a species with a large variability, but other authors distinguish as many as twelve species.[3] Common names for B. madagascariensis include jobiapototra, tsimiranjana, tsivavena, vahilava, voalava, voankatanana, voantalanina, voatalanina and votalanina (all Malagasy), and mfukufuku (Swahili), mfurugudu (Shambala, Tanzania) and bwa kato (Seychelles).[2][4][5][6]
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SLwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Brexia". Gateway to African Plants. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^ "Plant Information for Brexia madagascariensis (Brexiaceae)". Africa tree database. Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ^ Government of the Seychelles, Third national report to the Convention on Biological Diversity (PDF), retrieved 2016-03-21
- ^ Ruffo, C.K.; Birnie, A.; Tengnas, B. (2002). Edible Wild Plants of Tanzania. Nairobi: Regional Land Management Unit. ISBN 978-9966-896-60-5. cited on "Brexia madagascariensis". Useful Tropical Plants. Retrieved 2016-03-21.