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Common names: | Climbing bitterberry (English) Yellowwood bitterberry-rope (English) |
Frequency: | |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Climbing shrub or liane with simple coiled tendrils in the axils of triangular bracts. Bark smooth, pale brown; young branches with yellowish hairs. Leaves opposite, elliptic to ovate, mostly 2-7 long, more or less distinctly 3-5-veined from near the base, hairless or with yellowish hairs on the veins and margins, apex rounded, sometimes with a fine sharp point. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered axillary heads, white to yellow. Fruits ellipsoid to round, 1-2 cm long, fleshy, yellow, orange to red. |
Notes: | |
Derivation of specific name: | angolensis: of Angola |
Habitat: | On riverbanks in forest. |
Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1500 m |
Flowering time: | |
Worldwide distribution: | From Nigeria to East Africa and South to Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
Growth form(s): | |
Endemic status: | |
Red data list status: | Vulnerable |
Insects associated with this species: | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Tuesday 13 March 2012 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 776. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 53. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & White, F. (1990). New and noteworthy plants from the evergreen forests of Malawi Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 60(1/2) Page 79. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 268. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 165. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (1983). Loganiaceae (inc. Buddlejaceae) Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Page 356. 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 58. |
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