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Phyllanthus welwitschianus
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Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Kalihonga Village, Longe area, Kaoma Distr., Western Province
Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Walubita Village, Namaloba, Kaoma Distr., Western Province
Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Walubita Village, Namaloba, Kaoma Distr., Western Province
Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Kalihonga Village, Longe area, Kaoma Distr., Western Province
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
An erect perennial herb or subshrub up to 90 cm tall, dioecious or occasionally monoecious; stems several from a woody rootsock, monomorphic, simple or branched , glabrous or minutely puberulous, reddish-brown; scale leaves 0; foliage leaves distichous or ± so, often folded up together, petiole 1-2 mm long, leaf blades 0.5-3.5 x 0.3-2.8 cm, suborbicular to elliptic-oblong, rounded or emarginated, sometimes mucronate, rounded, truncate or shallowly cordate at base, glabrous on both surfaces, deep blue-green above, paler and glaucous below, lateral nerves in 6-18 pairs, scarcely or slightly prominent above but more so beneath; male flowers in 2 or more flowered axillary cymules, female flowers solitary or rarely in pairs per axil, rarely accompanied by 1-2 male flowers; in male and female flowers sepals 6, white to yellowish-green or reddish-tinged; fruit 4 x 7-8 mm, 3-lobed, shallowly rugulose-venose to ± smooth, pale green and often reddish-tinged; seeds 3.2-3.4 x 2.6-2.8 x 2.4-2.5 mm, somewhat asymmetrically rounded-segmentiform, pale yellowish-brown with c. 35 longitudinal rows of minute glistening darker reddish-brown tubercles on the dorsal facet and c. 30 irregular and rather broken arcs of such tubercles on each ventral facet. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | welwitschianus: named after Austrian botanist, Friedrich Martin Welwitsch (1806-1872). |
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| Flowering time: | Jan - Mar |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC (Katanga), Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique |
| Mozambique distribution: | N |
| Growth form(s): | Shrub under 2 m. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 83 - 84. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Phyllanthus welwitschianusBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Phyllanthus welwitschianus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Phyllanthus welwitschianus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Phyllanthus welwitschianus
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Phyllanthus welwitschianus
JSTOR Plant Science: Phyllanthus welwitschianus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Phyllanthus welwitschianus
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