Adenia karibaensis W.J. de Wilde

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Synonyms:
Common names:	Cat-o'-nine-tails (English)
Frequency:
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.
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
Zimbabwe distribution:	N
Growth form(s):	Tree.
Endemic status:	Endemic
Red data list status:	Lower Risk - near threatened
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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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