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Frequency: | Local |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Hairless perennial with stems up to 1 m high growing from a stout woody rootstock. Leaves simple, elliptic, 4-12 cm long, leathery; margin entire or minutely glandular denticulate; petiole 1-4 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, 10-13 cm long on a peduncle up to 8 cm long. Flowers unisexual, creamy white. Fruit c. 13 mm long, 3-lobed to subglobose, shallowly tuberculate. |
Notes: | Three other varieties are found in South Africa and Swaziland. |
Derivation of specific name: | latifolia: with broad leaves; subeglandulosa: almost without glands. |
Habitat: | In wooded grassland. |
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Worldwide distribution: | This variety only known from the Namaacha area in Southern Mozambique. |
Mozambique distribution: | M |
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Endemic status: | Endemic |
Red data list status: | Data deficient |
Insects associated with this species: | |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Monday 10 August 2015 |
Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 84. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 57. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 257 - 258. |
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