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| Common names: | Green-leaved wormbush (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub or small scrambling tree, up to c. 3 m tall. Bark greyish-brown; young branches covered in whitish lenticels. Leaves spirally arranged or clustered on dwarf spur branchlets, elliptic to obovate, up to 40 × 15 mm, dark green, thinly textured, hairless or finely hairy; apex rounded or notched, often bristle-tipped. Flowers solitary or in clusters on the spurs, mauve to purple-red; petals absent; stamens and style on a long stalk, called the andogynophore. Fruit narrowly cylindrical, up to c. 50 × 5 mm, warty, hairless. Seeds embedded in an red powdery pulp. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | natalensis: of Natal, South Africa |
| Habitat: | Occurring in very dry bush and thickets. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Jun - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | S |
| Growth form: | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
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