Turraea nilotica Kotschy & Peyr.

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Turraea nilotica

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Haslemere Lane, Umwinsidale

Turraea nilotica

Photo: Bart Wursten
Haslemere Lane, Umwinsidale

Turraea nilotica

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Gardiner Farm, nr Arcturus

Turraea nilotica

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Domboshawa

Turraea nilotica

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Calderwood Park, Peterhouse School

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Synonyms: Turraea randii Baker f.
Turraea tubulifera C. DC.
Common names: Bushveld honeysuckle-tree (English) Chipindura (Shona) Chirambagavakava (Shona) Chitsvimbovarisa (Shona) Chitunguru (Shona) Isidlamvundala (Ndebele) Miombo honeysuckle-tree (English) Mudyakuwe (Shona) Mukondanyoka (Shona) Muzaramhanga (Shona) Small mahogany (English)
Frequency: Common
Status: Native
Description:
Deciduous shrub or small tree. Leaves elliptic, entire, up to 10 × 16 cm, densely velvety hairy, particularly on the under surface. Flowers with a distinct staminal tube, greenish-white, turning yellow with age, appearing before the leaves in dense clusters on the young branches. Fruit a near-spherical, thinly woody capsule. See T. zambesica, which is confined to the Zambesi Valley. It can be distinguished by the smaller leaves being nearly glabrous.
Notes: In leaf it superficially resembles Vangueria infausta, another common species with which it frequently grows, but T. nilotica differs from that species in having alternate leaves.
Derivation of specific name: nilotica: from the valley of the Nile
Habitat: In miombo woodland, wooded grassland and on termite mounds
Altitude range: (metres) 990 - 1570 m
Flowering time:Jul - Sep
Worldwide distribution: From Sudan and East Africa southwards to northern South Africa
Zimbabwe distribution: N,W,C,E,S
Growth form(s): Tree, shrub over 2 m.
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Insects associated with this species: Pseudaphelia apollinaris (Food plant)
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Images last updated: Thursday 8 October 2015
Literature:

Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 97. (Includes a picture).

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 386. (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 57. As Turraea nilotica nilotica

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. As Turraea nilotica nilotica

Coates Palgrave, K. et al. (1956). Trees of Central Africa National Publications Trust, Salisbury. Pages 231 - 234. (Includes a picture).

Coates Palgrave, M. (1989). Guide to the trees and shrubs of the Mukuvisi Woodlands ?publisher. Page 10.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 250.

Drummond, R.B. (1981). Common Trees of the Central Watershed Woodlands of Zimbabwe. Natural Resources Board, Harare. Pages 104 - 105. (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 62.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 86.

Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 34.

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 122.

White, F. & Styles, B.T. (1963). Meliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Pages 309 - 311. (Includes a picture).


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Wikipedia: Turraea nilotica


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Turraea nilotica.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=133490, retrieved 19 March 2024

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