| Entry | 1 Crateva
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| Part of speech | 2 noun |
| Explanations in English |
3 Pantropical genus with 10 species; 4 to 6 endemic Malagasy subspecies.
4 Crateva is distributed in humid evergreen forest, as well as dry deciduous 5 forest from sea level to 1,500 m elevation. It can be recognized by 6 its large flowers with free sepals and distinctly clawed 7 petals much longer than the sepals, and large, fleshy to woody, 8 globose to ellipsoid fruits. [2.515] |
| Vocabulary | 9 Botany: scientific genera |
| Analogs | 10 alakamisy |
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| Updated on 2025/11/17 |
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