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| Synonyms: |
Popowia chasei N. Robson |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Scrambling shrub or liane. Branches long and whip-like, appressed hairy when young, later becoming hairless. Leaves alternate, obovate to oblanceolate, 7-18.5 cm long, often cordate at the base, dark green and mostly hairless above, blue-green and sparsely appressed hairy beneath, particularly on the veins; net-veining distinct on both surfaces. Flowers solitary or in 2–5-flowered, leaf-opposed clusters on slender stalks c. 2.5 cm long. Petals yellowish, thick and fleshy, densely golden-hairy. Fruit of 2-7 globose to ellipsoid carpels, up to 1 cm long, hairless, bright red when ripe. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | chasei : named for Norman C Chase (1888 - ?), one of our foremost collectors of Zimbabwean plants |
| Habitat: | Evergreen forest. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 900 m (approx) |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
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