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| Synonyms: |
Vangueria adenodonta K. Schum. |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much-branched shrub or small tree, mostly hairless but with young shoots more or less appressed pubescent (in this variety); older branches greyish, warty with bark often red-brown, fissured and flaky. Leaves elliptic to broadly ovate-elliptic, 1.3–6 cm long, hairless except small pubescent domatia, which may be absent, rarely pubescent beneath and on midrib above; petioles 3–4 mm long; stipules hairless outside outside, densely long hairy inside, 2 mm long, abruptly ending in a narrow point 1–2 mm long. Flowers solitary, or 2–4 together; pedicels rather thick, 3–11 mm long. Calyx tube 1.5 mm long with small broadly triangular teeth, less than 1 mm long. Corolla creamy-white; tube obconic, 5–6 mm long, widening from the base, with a ring of deflexed long hairs inside; lobes oblong, reflexed, about 3–3.5 mm long. Fruit purple-black, c. 8 mm long. |
| Notes: | See var. reticulata for comparison. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | Along forest margins and on rocky slopes. |
| Altitude range: | 2100 m (approx) |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania, northern Malawi and Zambia. |
| Malawi distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 3 October 2019 |
| Literature: |
Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 290 - 291. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 252. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 92. |
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