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Homalium dentatum
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Photo: G Nicholls
Photo: G Nicholls
Photo: G Nicholls
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| Synonyms: |
Blackwellia dentata Harv. Homalium chasei Wild |
| Common names: | Brown-ironwood (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Medium-sized to tall tree. Bark grey, fairly smooth but flaking in older trees; young branches with conspicuous pale lenticels. Leaves broadly ovate, obovate to almost circular, 4-13 cm long, thinly textured, bright to deep green on both surfaces, veining slightly raised above and conspicuous below, hair-tuft domatia sometimes present in the axils of the veins below; margin coarsely toothed or scalloped. Flowers in axillary branched heads, yellowish-green, c. 5 mm in diameter, unpleasantly scented. Fruit a very small obovoid capsule, c. 3 mm in diameter, densely covered in short soft hairs. |
| Notes: | Homalium chasei Wild has been sunk under H. Dentatum |
| Derivation of specific name: | dentatum: toothed, dentate |
| Habitat: | In evergreen forest and on rocky hillsides protected from fire. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 500 - 1525 m |
| Flowering time: | Jan - May |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | W,C,E,S |
| Growth form: | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
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African Plant Database: Homalium dentatumBiodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Homalium dentatum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Homalium dentatum
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Homalium dentatum
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Homalium dentatum
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Homalium dentatum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Homalium dentatum
JSTOR Plant Science: Homalium dentatum
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Homalium dentatum
Tropicos: Homalium dentatum
West African Plants database: Homalium dentatum
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