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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small shrub up to 1.3 m tall. Branches blue-green, ridged, erect. Leaves simple, narrowly elliptic, up to 10 × 2.5 cm, grey-green, hairless. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf axils; sepals pubescent on the inside; petals small, whitish. Stamens c. 30, 2.5 cm long. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, c. 2.5 × 2 cm, coarsely verrucose. |
| Notes: | The habitat is under threat by agriculture and over-browsing by elephant. Listed as Vulnerable. |
| Derivation of specific name: | salicifolia: leaves like a willow (Salix sp.) |
| Habitat: | On bare ground and sandy soils in mopane woodland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe (Binga and Sengwa areas) |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Vulnerable |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 238. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 163. Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 136. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 32. Wild, H. (1960). Capparaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Page 228. |
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