Fernandoa abbreviata Bidgood

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Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare

Photo: Mark Hyde
Outside Dandaro by the Borrowdale Road

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Description:	Tree to 18 m. Bark reddish-brown, vertically striate. Leaves with 3-5 pairs of leaflets and a terminal leaflet; leaflets oblong to elliptic; margin sinuate to serrate. Flowers borne singly or in few-flowered racemes, spectacular, bright orange-red with a yellow centre. Calyx 2-3-lobed. Corolla bell-shaped, up to 10 cm in diameter, shallowly lobed with 4 large stamens and a shorter staminode; anther thecae 5-8 mm long. Fruit a long slender capsule, to 60 cm long, ± circular in cross-section.
Notes:	For a discussion of this species, see F. magnifica.
Derivation of specific name:	abbreviata: shortened (probably referring to the inflorescence)
Flowering time:	Jun - Oct
Worldwide distribution:	Central Tanzania (Iringa, Mpwapwa and (?) Morogoro Districts) and southern Malawi (Mulanje District).
Growth form(s):	Tree.
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Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Image last updated:	Saturday 7 October 2006
Literature:	Bidgood, S (1994). Synopsis of the Continental African Species of Fernandoa (Bignoniaceae) Kew Bulletin 49(3) Pages 386 - 388. (Includes a picture).

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