4193.000 Ekebergia Sparrm.

Key to species

1Small tree of open woodland; second-year branchlets usually more than 7 mm in diameter, rough, with thick corky bark and crowded leaf scars, lenticels inconspicuous; lflets not tapering, apex broadly rounded to subtruncate, emarginate or with a minute point, lower surface nearly always drying whitish because of a covering of minute spherical wax particlesEkebergia benguelensis
1Medium-sized tree of evergreen forest; second-year branchlets usually less than 6 mm in diameter, smooth, with scattered leaf scars, closely lenticellate with large whitish lenticels; lflets tapering to an acuminate or subacuminate apex, lower surface never drying whitish, without spherical wax particlesEkebergia capensis

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Ekebergia: Key to species.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species-key.php?genus_id=818, retrieved 18 April 2024

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