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Acalypha pubiflora
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
By rd from Hwali Business Centre to Manama Mission, Dibilishaba CL
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| Synonyms: |
Calyptrospatha pubiflora (Baill.) Klotzsch |
| Common names: | Limpopo false-nettle (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much-branched shrub, 1-6 m tall. Branches reddish-brown with white lenticels. Leaves spirally arranged, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, up to 16 times; 6 cm, pale to bright green with yellow translucent gland-dots on the undersurface; margin toothed. Flowers in axillary spikes, unisexual on the same inflorescence. Female flowers below, held in large shallowly cup-shaped bracts; male flowers above, very small, whitish. Fruit c. 3 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, gland-dotted, held in the enlarged bracts. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | pubiflora: with hairy flowers. |
| Habitat: | In deciduous woodland, riverine vegetation and at the base of rocky outcrops, often in sandy soils. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1220 m |
| Flowering time: | Oct - May |
| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, South Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | W,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: | Sunday 11 May 2008 |
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Flora of Mozambique: Acalypha pubifloraAfrican Plant Database: Acalypha pubiflora
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Acalypha pubiflora
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Acalypha pubiflora
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Acalypha pubiflora
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Acalypha pubiflora
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Acalypha pubiflora
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Acalypha pubiflora
JSTOR Plant Science: Acalypha pubiflora
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Acalypha pubiflora
Tropicos: Acalypha pubiflora
West African Plants database: Acalypha pubiflora
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