Erythrina humeana Spreng.

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Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Levasflor, Condué, Cheringoma, Sofala, Mozambique

Photo: Theo van der Merwe
Farm Bokplaas, Inhassoro, on the Temane gasfield

Synonyms:	Erythrina hastifolia G. Bertol. Erythrina humei E. Mey.
Common names:	Dwarf coral-tree (English)
Description:	Suffrutex shrub or very small tree up to 4 m. Stems, branches leaf-veins and petioles armed with recurved prickles. Leaves 3-foliolate with leaflets strongly 3-lobed-triangular with a long apical point, up to 12 × 13 cm, shiny dark green, hairless. Flowers in terminal racemes on long stalks, scarlet-red. Fruit a woody pod, strongly constricted between the seeds, purple-black, up to 15 cm long. Seeds red with a black hilum.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	humeana: named after Sir Abraham Hume (1749 - 1838), cultivator of exotic plants.
Flowering time:	Sep - Feb
Worldwide distribution:	Mozambique, Eswatini and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Literature:	Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 87. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 304. (Includes a picture). Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 7 - 9. (Includes a picture).

Flora of Mozambique: Erythrina humeana
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