Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A. Juss. ex Spreng.

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Urema floodplain, Gorongosa National Park.

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Synonyms:	Croton plicatus Vahl
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Status:	Native
Description:	Prostrate or more or less erect, branched annual or perennial herb, up to 50 cm. Most parts densely covered in greyish stellate hairs. Leaves rhombic-ovate, up to 7 × 5 cm with a long petiole, plicate-undulate, especially when young, 3-5-veined from the base with 2 dark purple glands at the base; margin more or less entire or obscurely toothed. Flowers in leaf-opposed or pseudo-axillary inflorescences, covered in stellate hairs, unisexual. Male flowers orange-yellow or pinkish; female flowers, crimson-red, Fruit up to 5 × 9 mm, 3-lobed, densely covered in stellate hairs, reddish or bluish-purple when ripe.
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Habitat:	In alluvial soils on floodplains, mudflats and margins of pans.
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Worldwide distribution:	Throughout tropical Africa to northern SouthAfrica. Also in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and western Arabia.
Mozambique distribution:	T,MS,GI
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Content last updated:	Monday 24 March 2008
Literature:	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 40. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 141 - 143. (Includes a picture).

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