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Sphaerocoryne gracilis
gracilis
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Photo: Judd Welwitch
Along Maputo-Xai-xai road between Macia and Chissano
Photo: Judd Welwitch
Along Maputo-Xai-xai road between Macia and Chissano
Photo: Judd Welwitch
Along Maputo-Xai-xai road between Macia and Chissano
Photo: Judd Welwitch
Along Maputo-Xai-xai road between Macia and Chissano
Photo: Judd Welwitch
Along Maputo-Xai-xai road between Macia and Chissano
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| Synonyms: |
Melodorum gracile (Engl. & Diels) Verdc. Popowia gracilis Engl. & Diels subsp. gracilis |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub, small tree or liane with mostly hairless yellowish-brown branches, turning blackish, with spreading or ascending axillary or supra-axillary shoots and more or less prominent petiole-bases. Leaves oblong or elliptic to obovate, 5–12 cm long, leathery, dark- or bluish-green and hairless above, blue-green and sparsely appressed-pubescent beneath, with veins more or less prominent above, glandular; petiole 3–8 mm long, hairless. Flowers bisexual, solitary or in pairs, terminal or axillary, pendulous; pedicel 0.4–1.5 cm long, broadening upward, more or less densely appressed-pubescent; bracteole below the middle of the pedicel, triangular or semi-orbicular, very small, c. 0.5 mm long, rusty-pubescent. Sepals ovate-triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm long, free or more or less connate at the base, appressed-pubescent. Petals greenish- to dark-yellow, thick, ovate or elliptic, 5–14 mm long, more or less densely sericeous-puberulous except near the base within, the inner ones about half as long as the outer, obovate, obtuse, appressed-pubescent outside, hairless within. Fruit pendulous on a pedicel 0.8–1.5 cm long; fruiting carpels 2–1, 1–2-seeded, segments ellipsoid or cylindric, 1.3–2 cm long, hairless, finely rugose, crimson; stipes 5–14 mm long. |
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| Habitat: | Dry evergreen forest, open woodland and bush, often on sandy soils. |
| Altitude range: | 0 - 1300 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Eastern Tanzania and Mozambique |
| Mozambique distribution: | N,Z,MS,GI,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 130. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 205. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 23. Robson, N.K.B. (1960). Annonaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 122 - 123. As Popowia gracilis gracilis |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Sphaerocoryne gracilisBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Sphaerocoryne gracilis
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Sphaerocoryne gracilis
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Sphaerocoryne gracilis
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Sphaerocoryne gracilis
JSTOR Plant Science: Sphaerocoryne gracilis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Sphaerocoryne gracilis
Plants of the World Online: Sphaerocoryne gracilis
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