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Fadogia triphylla
triphylla
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Mkushi District, Parklands Farm.
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| Synonyms: |
Fadogia buarica Robyns Fadogia coriacea Robyns Fadogia hockii De Wild. Fadogia kaessneri S. Moore |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb with several unbranched stems up to c.1.2 m high but usually shorter, growing from a horizontal woody rootstock. Leaves subsessile, in whorls of 3-4, or opposite towards the tips of the stems, elliptic, ovate or obovate, hairless, paler beneath but not markedly discolorous. Inflorescences axillary,mostly 3-7-flowered on peduncles 5-30 mm long. Flowers fragrant; corolla white to greenish-yellow outside, creamy-green inside, hairless except for a ring of deflexed hairs inside the tube. Fruit c. 10 mm wide, dark bluish-green turning black when dry. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | triphylla; with three leaves; referring to the 3-whorled leaves but this is not unique to this species of Fadogia. |
| Habitat: | Miombo woodland and wooded grassland. |
| Altitude range: | 540 - 1900 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Cameroon, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. |
| Mozambique distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 10 September 2018 |
| Literature: |
Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 276 - 277. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 241. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 88. |
Other sources of information about Fadogia triphylla var. triphylla:
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Flora of Malawi: Fadogia triphylla var. triphyllaFlora of Zambia: Fadogia triphylla var. triphylla
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Fadogia triphyllaAfrican Plant Database: Fadogia triphylla
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Fadogia triphylla
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Fadogia triphylla
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Fadogia triphylla
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iNaturalist: Fadogia triphylla
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Fadogia triphylla
JSTOR Plant Science: Fadogia triphylla
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Fadogia triphylla
Plants of the World Online: Fadogia triphylla
Tropicos: Fadogia triphylla
Wikipedia: Fadogia triphylla
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