Abstract
The Moringa genus of the Moringaceae family is monogeneric of the Dicotyledaneae and it contains 13 species. Moringa spp., are geographically distributed in several tropical countries. For example, M. drouhardii and M. hildebrandtii are found in Madagascar, M. stenopetala is noticed in Kenya and Ethiopia, M. ovalifolia is located in Namibia and Angola, M. concanensis is largely reported in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, M. oleifera is found in India, M. peregrina is observed in Arabia and Red sea area. On the other hand, M. arborea, M. longituba, M. rivae, M. pygmea, M. borziana and M. ruspoliana are indigenous to Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia. Each Moringa species has unique morphological features and this chapter describes the botanical descriptions of all Moringa spp., in detail and provides useful traits that can be used to distinguish each Moringa species.
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Boopathi, N.M., Abubakar, B.Y. (2021). Botanical Descriptions of Moringa spp.,. In: Boopathi, N.M., Raveendran, M., Kole, C. (eds) The Moringa Genome. Compendium of Plant Genomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80956-0_2
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