Dumasia villosa DC.
var. villosa

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Forested slope below Nhandore Peak, Mt Gorongosa

Photo: Bart Wursten
Forested slop above upper Nhandar Valley, Mt Gorongosa

Photo: Bart Wursten
Forested slope below Nhandore Peak, Mt Gorongosa

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Status:	Native
Description:	Twining perennial herb. Stems slender, covered in pale yellowish or brownish spreading hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate, 1.5-5.5 cm, hairless or sparsely hairy above, sparsely to densely hairy below; petiole 2-7 cm long. Flowers in axillary, pendulous racemes, yellow. Pods linear, 2-4 cm long, with short yellowish or brownish hairs, dehiscent with the blue-black seeds often remaining attached to the valves.
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Habitat:	At the edges and clearings in evergreen montane and riverine forest.
Altitude range: (metres)	1100 - 2200 m
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Madagascar and widespread in Asia.
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,C,E,S
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Images last updated:	Wednesday 10 October 2007
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 157. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 23. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 220. As: Dumasia villosa Mackinder, B. et al. (2001). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(5) Pages 58 - 60. (Includes a picture). 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 48. Pooley, E. (1998). A Field Guide to the Wild Flowers of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Region. Natal Flora Publications Trust. Durban. Pages 270 - 271. (Includes a picture). Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 98. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 94.

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