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Common names: | Cape honeysuckle (English) |
Description: | Small tree to 4 m, or more often, a bushy shrub. Branches strongly lenticellate. Leaves 10-25 cm long with (2)3-4(5) pairs of leaflets; rhachis narrowly winged. Leaflets elliptic, ovate to subcircular; margin crenate or serrate. Calyx 5-8(10) mm long, campanulate to shortly cylindric; calyx teeth less than 3 mm long. Corolla tube 3.5 cm long, curved, widening near the mouth; upper lip suberect, the 2 lobes joined to c. halfway; lower lip with 3 recurved free lobes. |
Notes: | |
Derivation of specific name: | capensis: of the Cape |
Flowering time: | All year round |
Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Eswatini and South Africa |
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Insects associated with this species: | Striphnopteryx edulis (Food plant) |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 185. As Tecomaria capensis (Includes a picture). Brummitt, R.K. (1974). Variation and distribution of the African species Tecomaria capensis (Bignoniaceae) Bulletin du Jardin Botanique National de Belgique 44(3/4) Pages 419 - 421. Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 880. As Tecomaria capensis (Includes a picture). Diniz, M.A. (1988). Bignoniaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(3) Pages 64 - 66. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 24. |
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