Kedrostis limpompensis C. Jeffrey

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Status:	Native
Description:	Herb with prostrate or climbing stems up to 6 m long. leaves more or less broadly ovate in outline, up to 4.5 × 5 cm, unlobed to 3-5-lobed with triangular lobes, cordate at the base, shortly rough-hairy; margin finely toothed; petiole 0.8-1.2 cm long. Flowers unisexual, sometimes occurring together in the same axils. Male flowers 3-5 in axillary clusters on peduncles 3-11 long; petals 2.5-3.2 mm long, yellow-green. Female flowers solitary, subsessile with a densely hairy ovary; petals 2-4 mm long. Fruit ovoid, beaked, 16-20 mm long, shortly and densely rough-hairy, red.
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Derivation of specific name:	limpompensis: of the Limpopo River in Mozambique where the type specimen was collected.
Habitat:	In Acacia bushland.
Altitude range:	60 - 750 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Southern Mozambique, southern Zimbabwe and Limpopo, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	GI
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Literature:	Jeffrey, C. (1975). Further Notes on Cucurbitaceae: III: Some Southern African Taxa Kew Bulletin 30(3) Page 485. Protologue Jeffrey, C. (1978). Cucurbitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Page 487. 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 38.

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