| Connarus | |
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| Fruits of Connarus paniculatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Oxalidales |
| Family: | Connaraceae |
| Genus: | Connarus L. [1] |
| Type species | |
| Connarus monocarpos L. [2] | |
| Species | |
See text | |
| Synonyms [1] | |
Connarus is a genus of plants in the family Connaraceae with a pan-tropical distribution.
Plants in this genus are vines, shrubs or small trees. Leaves are compound, either trifoliate or imparipinnate. The inflorescences are panicles, usually terminal or axillary , individual flowers are bisexual (i.e. each having both male and female organs), 5-merous (with five parts), and covered with glands; petals are free of each other, stamens 10 in two whorls, the inner whorl shorter, carpels 1. The fruit are flattened follicles, often with a stipe at the base and a small beak at the apex, opening on a longitudinal suture. Seeds 1, black with a fleshy yellow sarcotesta. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Connarus species are distributed throughout the tropics of Africa, Asia and the Americas, and extends into some temperate areas as well (southern Brazil and southern China). [1] [7]
As of February 2025 [update] , Plants of the World Online accepts the following 106 species: [1]
