Adenia karibaensis
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Kariba
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Kariba
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Kariba
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Kariba
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Kariba
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Kariba
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| Common names: | Cat-o'-nine-tails (English) |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Soft-wooded, somewhat succulent small tree. Bark grey-green, smooth with lenticels; branches long and drooping or scrambling, reddish-brown; axillary tendrils often present, up to 12 cm long. Leaves almost circular in outline, up to 16 × 15 cm, very deeply 5-lobed, greyish-green, sometimes purple-tinged, leathery, with 2 glands at the base of the lamina; margin entire. Flowers before or with the young leaves, unisexual, greenish-white; male flowers in short branched heads; female flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters. Fruit, ellipsoid up to 2 × 1.5 cm, green with white mottling. |
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| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | karibaensis: of (Lake) Kariba in NW Zimbabwe |
| Habitat: | On rocky outcrops in dry deciduous woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Oct - Nov |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe: restricted to the escarpment along Lake Kariba and the Zambezi |
| FZ divisions: | N |
| Growth form(s): | Tree. |
| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Lower Risk - near threatened |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 21 January 2010 |
| Literature: |
Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 262. Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Passifloraceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 388 - 390. (Includes a picture). Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 175. Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 144. 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 66. |
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