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| Synonyms: | |
| Common names: | Green-leaved wormbush (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub or small scrambling tree, up to c. 3 m tall. Bark greyish-brown; young branches covered in whitish lenticels. Leaves spirally arranged or clustered on dwarf spur branchlets, elliptic to obovate, up to 40 × 15 mm, dark green, thinly textured, hairless or finely hairy; apex rounded or notched, often bristle-tipped. Flowers solitary or in clusters on the spurs, mauve to purple-red; petals absent; stamens and style on a long stalk, called the andogynophore. Fruit narrowly cylindrical, up to c. 50 × 5 mm, warty, hairless. Seeds embedded in an red powdery pulp. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | natalensis: of Natal, South Africa |
| Habitat: | Occurring in very dry bush and thickets. |
| Altitude range: | |
| Flowering time: | Jun - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Mozambique distribution: | GI,M |
| Growth form(s): | Tree, shrub over 2 m. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 17 December 2007 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 149. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 231. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 238. 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 32. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 44. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 24. Wild, H. (1960). Capparaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 209 - 210. (Includes a picture). |
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