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|accepted_name=Malephora
|accepted_authority=N. E. Brown
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gard. Chron., ser.
|place=3, 81: 12. 1927
|year=1927
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Aizoaceae;Malephora
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aizoaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malephora]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek malle, arm-hole, and pherein, to bear, in reference to the seed pockets of the fruits
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 77
|treatment_page=page 89
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or subshrubs, perennial, succulent. <b>Roots</b> fibrous. <b>Stems</b> erect to prostrate, rooting at older nodes. <b>Leaves</b> cauline, opposite, sessile; stipules absent; blade slightly connate basally, triangular to cylindric, smooth, usually glaucous. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal, flowers solitary or in cymes, pedicellate; bracts absent. <b>Flowers</b> showy, tubular, to 5 cm diam.; calyx lobes 4–6, tapered, unequal; petals (including petaloid staminodia) 40–65, distinct, yellow, pink, orange, or reddish to purple; stamens 150, erect, bases often hairy; nectary often present; pistil 8–12-carpellate; ovary mostly inferior, flat apically, 8–12-loculed, each locule with basal pocket containing 1–2 or no seeds; placentation parietal; style absent; stigmas 8–12, plumose. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, persistent, dehiscence loculicidal, not separating into segments; locule lids present, winged. <b>Seeds</b> 75, lenticular, rough; tubercles in rows.</span><!--

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|distribution=Africa.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 13 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Malephora
|author=John E. Bleck
|authority=N. E. Brown
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Aizoaceae
|distribution=Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Gard. Chron., ser.
|publication year=1927
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|genus=Malephora
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