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| Common names: | Sweet-root corkwood (English) |
| Frequency: | Very rare |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small deciduous tree, often branching near the base of the trunk. Bark green, smooth, green, peeling in straw-coloured strips; short lateral branchlets spine-tipped; watery sap present. Leaves clustered on the short branchlets, 3-foliolate with a petiole up to 4.5 cm long; leaflets, obovate, up to 6 × 3.5 cm, terminal, lateral leaflets smaller, mostly hairless; margin finely toothed or scalloped in the upper half. Flowers small, cup-shaped, yellow, in clusters on the spur-branchlets, appearing before or with the new leaves. Fruit subspherical, c. 1.2 cm in diameter, hairless, bright red when ripe. Seeds black with a red, 4-armed pseudaril. |
| Notes: | Note: in Zimbabwe only known from one hill in the Chisumbanje CL. |
| Derivation of specific name: | neglecta: neglected,referring to its relatively late discovery and description as a species (1952). |
| Habitat: | Occurring in dry, deciduous open woodland and scrub and on rocky outcrops. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Oct - Nov |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Northern KaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
| Growth form: | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | Critically Endangered |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
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