Pachypodium saundersii N.E. Br.

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Along road to Chivirira Falls, Mahenye

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Along road to Chivirira Falls, Mahenye

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Viewpoint at Chivirira Falls, Mahenye

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Synonyms:
Common names:	Lundi star (English) Runde star (English)
Frequency:
Status:	Native
Description:	Low, succulent shrub, up to 2 m tall. Trunk short, swollen, sparsely branched; bark smooth, pale grey, wrinkled when dry; branches covered in long straight spines. Leaves spirally arranged up to 8 × 2.5 cm, narrowly obovate, thinly textured, hairless; apex mucronate; margin entire but wavy, often finely tuberculate. Flowers in condensed terminal heads, showy, c. 5 cm in diameter, white, often tinged pink or purple on the outside of the corolla. Fruit in pairs of horn-like follicles, up to 15 cm long. Seeds c. 7 mm long with an apical tuft of pale golden hairs up to 5 cm long.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	saundersii: named after Sir Charles James Renault Saunders (1857-1935), botanist who collected the first specimen in Natal, South Africa at the end of the 19th Century.
Habitat:	In open, dry woodland among rocks.
Altitude range:
Flowering time:	Feb - May
Worldwide distribution:	Southern Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Northern province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	MS,GI,M
Growth form(s):	Shrub over 2 m, shrub under 2 m.
Endemic status:
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Content last updated:	Sunday 2 November 2008
Literature:	Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Pages 115 - 116. (Includes a picture). *Coates Palgrave, K. et al.* (1956).** Trees of Central Africa National Publications Trust, Salisbury. Pages 30 - 32. (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 269. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 162. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. & Kupicha, F.K. et al. (1985). Apocynaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 463 - 464. (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 19.

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