Tragia gardneri Prain

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Borrowdale Common, Harare.

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Status:	Native
Description:	More or less erect perennial herb, up to 50 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves with a short petiole or sessile, ovate to lanceolate, up to 6 cm long, finely puberulous above, roughly hairy on the midrib and veins below; margin crenate-dentate to sharply dentate except near the base. Inflorescences terminal or leaf-opposed, spike-like up to 11 cm long. Flowers unisexual on the same plant. Fruit 3-lobed, 5 × 8 mm, smooth, puberulous with rough hairs on the ribs of the lobes.
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Derivation of specific name:	gardneri: for J. Gardner, plant collector, who collected this species in Zimbabwe in 1905.
Habitat:	In vlei grassland on black clay soils, sometimes on termite mounds.
Altitude range: (metres)	Up to 1500 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Botswana, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	W,C
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Images last updated:	Thursday 29 January 2009
Literature:	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 43. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 232 - 233. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 58.

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