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Cynanchum schistoglossum
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path from Chitengo Camp to Pungwe River, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path from Chitengo Camp to Pungwe River, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path from Chitengo Camp to Pungwe River, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path from Chitengo Camp to Pungwe River, Gorongosa National Park.
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial climbing or twining herb with milky sap. Stems 2-3 m long, covered in soft hairs. Leaves lanceolate-oblong to narrowly ovate, hairy on both surfaces, cordate at the base; apex with a long drawn out point, sometimes mucronate. Flowers in axillary pseudo-umbels. Corolla creamy-green. Outer corona lobes white with a horn-like appendage; inner lobes greenish-white. Fruit often with only one follicle fully developed, 5-8.5 cm long, pale green with dark blotches, covered in soft velvety hairs. |
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| Habitat: | In riverine fringes. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS (other?) |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 3 August 2009 |
| Literature: |
Binns, B. (1968). A First Check List of the Herbaceous Flora of Malawi The Government Printer, Zomba, Malawi Page 20. Bruyns, P.V. (2014). The Apocynaceae of Namibia Strelitzia 34 SANBI, Pretoria, South Africa Page 45. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 344 - 345. Liede, S. (1996). A revision of Cynanchum in Africa Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 83 Pages 337 - 338. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 26. |
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