Psychotria pumila Hiern
var. buzica (S. Moore) E.M.A. Petit

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Magorogodo hills, Zomba Community

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

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Chironde area, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

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Synonyms:	Psychotria buzica S. Moore
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Status:	Native
Description:	Mostly a smallish shrub up to c. 1-1.5 m tall but sometimes up to 3 m tall. Leaves opposite, elliptic, 2-14 cm long, mostly hairless but sometimes hairy on the veins; bacterial nodules mostly absent or rarely a few scattered around the leaf blade; stipules prominently bilobed. Inflorescences in few-many-flowered condensed subumbelliform heads, 1-1.5 cm in diameter on a peduncle up to 6.5 cm long. Flowers white. Fruit, subglobose, hairless, crowned by the limb of the calyx, first yellow to orange but bright red when ripe.
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Derivation of specific name:	pumila: dwarf buzica: of the Buzi River/District in Mozambique.
Habitat:	In woodland, open forest, thicket, wooded grassland sometimes on limestone.
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Worldwide distribution:	Southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	N,Z,MS
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Content last updated:	Monday 25 December 2017
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 907. As Psychotria pumila pumila (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 73. Verdcourt, B. (1988). Rubiaceae, Part 1 Flora Zambesiaca 5(1) Pages 26 - 27. White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 492.

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