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Common names: | Chiwanichinuna (Hlengwe) Large-flowered white cross-berry (English) |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Many-stemmed, scrambling shrub or small tree. Leaves often drooping, oblong-lanceolate, slightly pubescent above when young, more densely so below, green on both surfaces; margin finely dentate-crenate. Flowers showy, white, in leaf-opposed clusters. Fruit distinctly 4-lobed, orange-red when ripe. |
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Habitat: | In riverine vegetation, often forming thickets. |
Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1000 m |
Flowering time: | Jan - Mar |
Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Caprivi - Namibia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,E,S |
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Endemic status: | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 582. (Includes a picture). Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Page 448. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 258. Mannheimer, C. & Curtis B. (2009). Le Roux and Müller's Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Namibia Macmillan Education, Windhoek, Namibia. Pages 322 - 323. (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 81. Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 110. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 109. Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 227. Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 61. (Includes a picture). |
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