Salvadora australis Schweick.

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Save-Runde confluence area, Gonarezhou National Park

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Synonyms:	Salvadora angustifolia Turrill var. australis (Schweick.) I. Verd.
Common names:	Narrow-leaved mustard tree (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	Much-branched shrub or small tree. Branches long and drooping, green and grey-velvety when young. Leaves opposite, subsessile, linear-oblong, up to 7 × 2 cm, grey-green, somewhat fleshy to leathery, velvety; margin entire. Flowers in terminal or axillary branched heads, very small, greenish-yellow, with conspicuous glands among the stamens. Fruit subspherical, c. 5 mm diameter, purplish with a whitish bloom when ripe.
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Derivation of specific name:	australis: southern
Habitat:	On alluvial soils, along river banks and in flood plains, often on termite mounds.
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Flowering time:	May - Nov
Worldwide distribution:	Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-natal, South Africa
Mozambique distribution:	GI,M
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Content last updated:	Saturday 13 July 2019
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 774. (Includes a picture). 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 107. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 267. As Salvadora angustifolia australis 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. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 100. Vickery, A.R. (1983). Salvadoraceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Page 380.

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