Vepris bremekampii (I.Verd.) Mziray

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Synonyms:	Toddaliopsis bremekampii I. Verd,
Common names:	Wart-berry (English) Wild mandarin (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	Shrub or small evergreen tree, up to c. 6 m high. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets oblong-elliptic, 3.5-9 cm long, bright green above, yellow-green beneath, densely set with translucent gland dots when seen against the light, hairless; margin entire and slightly rolled under; petiole up to 4 cm long, grooved above. Infloresences terminal and axillary, about as long as the petiole of the subtending leaf. Flowers unisexual on the same inflorescence, small, creamy-white; sepals 4; stamens 8, reduced to staminodes in female flowers;ovary slightly 4-lobed, absent in male flowers. Fruit c. 1.4 cm in diameter, very wrinkled and warty like a miniature lemon, reddish brown when ripe.
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Derivation of specific name:	bremekampii: named after Professor Cornelis Eliza Bertus Bremekamp (1888-1984), Dutch botanist who lived and worked in Indonesia and South Africa.
Habitat:	In dry woodland and scrub on sandy soils.
Altitude range:	Up to 500 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	GI,M
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Content last updated:	Thursday 29 January 2015
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 354. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 418. as Toddaliopsis bremekampii Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 248. as Toddaliopsis bremekampii 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 75. Mendonça, F. A. (1963). Rutaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 205. as Toddaliopsis bremekampii Schmidt, E., Lötter, M. & McCleland, W. (2002). Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park Jacana, Johannesburg, South Africa Pages 236 - 237. as Toddaliopsis bremekampii (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 99. as Toddaliopsis bremekampii 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 29. as Toddaliopsis bremekampii

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