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| Common names: | Northern hard-leaf (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much-branched shrub or small tree. Branchlets covered in grey woolly hairs. Leaves densely spirally arranged, lanceolate-elliptic, up to 15 × 5 mm, dark green above, densely white-woolly below; margin entire, rolled under. Flowers small and inconspicuous, greenish or whitish, in axillary or terminal heads or panicles. Fruit an obovoid capsule, 6-7 mm long, hairless, crowned with the base of the calyx, dehiscent. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | paniculata: with a branched racemose or cymose inflorescence (panicle) |
| Habitat: | Along forest margins and among rocks in stunted Brachystegia woodland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Above 1670 m |
| Flowering time: | Dec - Jun |
| Worldwide distribution: | South Africa and the Chimanimani and "Himalaya" Mts, Mozambique and Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
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