Pappea capensis Eckl. & Zeyh.

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Tshipise, Limpopo, S Africa

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Camp Amalinda, Matobo

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Hillside Dam, Bulawayo

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Synonyms:	Pappea fulva Conrath
Common names:	Indaba tree (English) Jacket plum (English) Judgement tree (English) Muno we muchenya (Shona) Uzagogwane (Ndebele)
Frequency:	Common
Status:	Native
Description:	Deciduous tree up to 10 m. Leaves: petiole up to 15 mm; lamina up to 10 × 6 cm, oblong to narrowly oblong, shortly pubescent above, tomentellous beneath; base rounded to subcordate; apex rounded and usually shortly mucronate; margin entire to sharply spiny-serrate. Inflorescence up to 16 cm. Flowers yellowish or greenish in fascicles or small subsessile cymes along the rhachis. Petals 0.7-1 mm in diameter. Fruit c.10 mm in diameter, subspherical, tomentellous. Seed c.7 mm in diameter, subspherical, black, shiny, nearly surrounded by the fleshy, orange-red arillode
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Derivation of specific name:	capensis: of the Cape
Habitat:	In open woodland, often on termite mounds.
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Mainly Jan - May
Worldwide distribution:	From Kenya to the Cape, South Africa
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,W,C,E,S
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Endemic status:
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Insects associated with this species:	Anthene definita definita (Larval foodplant)
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Images last updated:	Monday 10 August 2009
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 539. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C., Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 28. Coates Palgrave, M. (1989). Guide to the trees and shrubs of the Mukuvisi Woodlands ?publisher. Page 20. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 256. Exell, A.W. (1966). Sapindaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(2) Pages 540 - 541. (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 76. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 100. Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 43. (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 Pages 173 - 174.

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