Synsepalum brevipes (Baker f.) T.D. Penn.

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Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest

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Zomba Community

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Survey Plot 3, Magorogodo hills, Zomba Community

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Regulo Zomba's compound, Zomba Community.

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Synonyms:	Chrysophyllum cinereum Engl. Chrysophyllum stuhlmannii Engl. Pachystela brevipes Baker) Engl. Pachystela cinerea (Engl.) Engl. Pouteria brevipes (Baker) Baehni Sideroxylon brevipes Baker
Common names:	Stem-fruit miraculous-berry (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	Shrub or small to medium-sized tree. Bark grey-brown to blackish, rough in older specimens; stem often fluted; milky latex present. Leaves oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 9-25 cm long, leathery, glossy green and hairless above, pale with silvery hairs and distinct, parallel lateral veins below, midrib grooved. Young leaves and twigs covered in short brown hairs. Flowers in few to many-flowered clusters on dwarf spur branchlets along the branches, greenish to creamy-white, sweetly scented. Fruit thinly fleshy, ellipsoid, c. 2.5 × 1.5 cm, yellow to orange when ripe, tipped by the style and cupped in the calyx lobes, edible.
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Habitat:	In riverine forest and dry evergreen forest on the fringes of lakes.
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Flowering time:	Jan - May
Worldwide distribution:	Widespread in tropical Africa to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	N,Z,MS
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 16 March 2016
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 743. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 54. Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Pages 872 - 873. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 109. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 266. As Pachystela brevipes Kupicha, F.K. (1983). Sapotaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 225 - 227. as Pachystela brevipes (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 77. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 96. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 175. Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Dowsett-Lemaire, F., Congdon, C., Branch, B., Collins, S., Curran, M., Dowsett, R,J., Fishpool, L., Francisco, J., Harris, Kopp, M. & de Sousa, C. (2012). Mt Mabu, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Page 75. White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pages 543 - 546. (Includes a picture).

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