Psydrax kraussioides (Hiern) Bridson

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Nhandar River, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa, Mozambique.

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Eastern slopes of Mt Shangani, Mandzundzu, Lower Chimanimani Mts

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Synonyms:	Canthium anomocarpum sensu F. White non DC. Canthium egregium Bullock Canthium henriquesianum sensu G. Taylor Canthium kraussioides Hiern Canthium malacocarpum (K. Schum. & K. Krausse) Bullock Plectronia kraussioides (Hiern) K.Schum. Plectronia malacocarpa K. Schum. & K. Krausse Plectronia pulchra K. Schum.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Scandent shrub or liane up to 7 m high with round or square, sometimes grooved, hairless branches. Leaves opposite, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4-14 cm long, somewhat shiny and leathery, hairless, veins often impressed above; petiole 5-9 mm long; stipules 4-7 mm long. Flowers in 2-15-flowered, umbellate axillary heads on pedicels 5-8 mm long. Corolla 5-lobed, greenish, cream or white with a ring of deflexed hairs in the tube. Fruit almost bispherical, 14-15 mm wide, greyish-green, sometimes galled.
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Derivation of specific name:	kraussioides: resembling a Kraussia, another genus in Rubiaceae.
Habitat:	In riverine forest or thickets and evergreen forest by streams, swamp forest and Brachystegia woodland at margins of forests.
Altitude range:	450 - 1300 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Fairly widespread in tropical Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	Z,MS
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Content last updated:	Friday 5 August 2016
Literature:	Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 361 - 362. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 926. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 46. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 276. As Canthium henriquesianum 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 73. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 167. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 99.

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