Gerrardina eylesiana Milne-Redh.

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Gerrardina eylesiana

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Estate, Stapleford

Gerrardina eylesiana

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Estate, Stapleford

Gerrardina eylesiana

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Estate, Stapleford

Gerrardina eylesiana

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Estate, Stapleford

Gerrardina eylesiana

Photo: Bart Wursten
John Meikle Forestry Estate, Stapleford

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Synonyms:
Common names: Brown-ironwood (English)
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Scrambling shrub with slender branches. Leaves alternate, lanceolate to broadly ovate, up to 5.5 × 3 cm, hairless or slightly velvety on the midrib below, margin scalloped or toothed with minute apical glands. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters, small, white; stamens 5. Fruit a pendulous, elliptic-ovoid capsule, c. 8 × 6 mm, somewhat fleshy.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: eylesiana: named after Frederick Eyles (1864 - 1937), one of the most prolific botanical collectors of Zimbabwean plants.
Habitat: In the understorey of evergreen forest and along forest margins.
Altitude range: (metres) 1500 - 2000 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution: E
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Images last updated: Thursday 24 November 2011
Literature:

Alford, M.H. (2006). Gerrardinaceae: A New Family of African Flowering Plants Unresolved among Brassicales, Huerteales, Malvales, and Sapindales Taxon 55(4) Page 962.

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 629. (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 28.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 261.

Goodier, R. & Phipps, J.B. (1961). A revised checklist of the vascular plants of the Chimanimani Mountains Kirkia 1 Page 59.

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 53. u

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Pages 104 - 105.

White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pages 272 - 273.

Wild, H. (1960). Flacourtiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 287 - 288. (Includes a picture).

Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 92.


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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Gerrardina eylesiana
African Plant Database: Gerrardina eylesiana
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Gerrardina eylesiana
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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: Gerrardina eylesiana.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=140720, retrieved 19 March 2024

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