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Croton pseudopulchellus
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Hwange NP, on loop from Main Camp through Dopi Pan
Photo: Bart Wursten
Hwange NP, on loop from Main Camp through Dopi Pan
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near railway line by road to Hwange NP, Main Camp
Photo: Bart Wursten
Hwange NP, on loop from Main Camp through Dopi Pan
Photo: Bart Wursten
Hwange NP, on loop from Main Camp through Dopi Pan
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| Synonyms: | |
| Common names: | Small lavender croton (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub or small tree. Bark roughish dark grey with watery sap; young branchlets reddish, covered in glandular scales. Leaves sub-opposite or whorled, elliptic to lanceolate, 1-8 cm long, aromatic when crushed, dark green and hairless above, densely covered in silver-white scales below often with numerous reddish-brown glandular scales; margin entire, rolled under. Flowers in spherical heads, pale creamy-yellow, unisexual, in the same or different heads on the same tree. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule, c. 10 mm in diameter, covered in pale yellowish-grey scales. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In hot and dry woodland, often on rocky or sandy soils. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1220 m |
| Flowering time: | Oct - Feb |
| Worldwide distribution: | Tropical Africa to Mpumalanga, Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,E,S |
| Growth form: | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 20 January 2011 |
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Flora of Mozambique: Croton pseudopulchellusAfrican Plant Database: Croton pseudopulchellus
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Croton pseudopulchellus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Croton pseudopulchellus
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Croton pseudopulchellus
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Croton pseudopulchellus
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Croton pseudopulchellus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Croton pseudopulchellus
JSTOR Plant Science: Croton pseudopulchellus
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Croton pseudopulchellus
Tropicos: Croton pseudopulchellus
West African Plants database: Croton pseudopulchellus
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