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Common names: | Chimunamato (Shona) Sticky acalypha (English) |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herb, with annual stems, up to 70 cm tall, growing from a woody rhizomatous rootstock. Leaves ovate-rhombic to ovate-lanceolate, up to 14 × 5 cm, 5-9-veined from the base, more or less hairy on both surfaces particularly on the veins, sometimes also glandular pubescent above; margin finely toothed or almost entire; petiole 1-3 cm long. Stipules 5-8 mm long, linear, glandular pubescent. Flowers unisexual in separate inflorescences, usually on the same plant. Female inflorescence a terminal spike, up to 10 cm long; flowers singly held in ovate boat-shaped bracts, densely covered in sticky stalked glands. Male inflorescences axillary, up to 18 cm long, densely-flowered; flowers minute, greenish, sometimes flushed reddish. Fruit 3 × 4 mm, deeply 3-lobed, sparingly pubescent, dark green. |
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Habitat: | Occurring in miombo woodland, mixed deciduous woodland or wooded grassland, often on stony or sandy soils. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 750 - 1520 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Friday 22 January 2010 |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 2. 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 40. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 196 - 197. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 55. |
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