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Synonyms: |
Corallocarpus sphaerocarpus Cogn. Kedrostis bainesii (Hook.f.) Cogn. Rhynchocarpa bainesii Hook. f. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herbs with annual prostrate or scandent, smooth stems, up to 2 m long. Leaves palmately 5-lobed, finely puberulous below, deeply cordate at the base; margin almost entire to distinctly toothed or lobed. Flowers in axillary clusters; male flowers on a long pedicel; female flowers sessile, pale yellow or white. Fruit up to 9 × 6.5 mm in subsessile clusters, ellipsoid, not rostrate, hairless, bright red when ripe. |
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Derivation of specific name: | bainesii: after Thomas Baines (1820-75), artist and naturalist |
Habitat: | In deciduous woodland and scrub. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 300 - 1050 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,E,S |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Friday 20 February 2015 |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 16. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 82. (Includes a picture). Jeffrey, C. (1978). Cucurbitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 488 - 489. (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 38. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 52. |
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