Raphionacme monteiroae (Oliv.) N.E. Br.

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Along path towards bottom of Nharizengere Falls, northwestern Gorongosa National Park.

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Along track from Zamambo Gorge to rangerpost, Gorongosa National Park, Cheringoma.

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Synonyms:	Chlorocyathus monteiroae Oliv. Raphionacme loandae Schltr.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial climber, growing from a cylindric-ovoid tuber, up to 30 cm long. Stems, 1-few, up to 8 m long, interpetiolar ridges sometimes with black glands. Leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic to obovate, up to 4.5 × 3 cm, somewhat fleshy, dark green and pubescent above, pale green and pubescent below; petiole 1-10 mm long, sometimes with black glands. Flowers in terminal and upper axillary inflorescences. Corolla light green to bright green, lobes ovate, 6-12 mm long, sup-spreading; margins folded back. Corona fleshy, hairless or minutely papillose; lobes fused to the corolla lobes like small pockets, 3-segmented; central segment 2-3 mm long, filiform, white; lateral segments obtriangular, c. 1 mm long, pinkish or purplish. Fruit in horizontally spreading, paired follicles, very narrowly ovoid, 70-110 mm long, tapering.
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Derivation of specific name:	monteiroae: after Mrs Rose Monteiro, wife of Portuguese naturalist Joachim Monteiro, who collected plants in Angola and Mozambique.
Habitat:	In dry deciduous woodland and scrub.
Altitude range:	0 - 800 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	N,T,MS,M
Growth form(s):	Climber, shrub over 2 m.
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 8 June 2016
Literature:	Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia Strelitzia 34 SANBI, Pretoria, South Africa Pages 26 - 27. as Raphionacme monteiroae (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 270. As Raphionacme monteiroae Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 31 - 32. 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 66. As Raphionacme monteiroae Venter, H.J.T. (2008). Taxonomy of Chlorocyathus (Apocynaceae: Periplocoideae) South African Journal of Botany 74 Pages 290 - 291. (Includes a picture).

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