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| Synonyms: |
Dregea faulknerae Bullock |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Uncommon |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Woody scrambler to c. 5 m, latex colour not recorded; young shoots densely pubescent, older wood with thick corky wings. Leaves broadly ovate, 6–13 cm long, cordate at the base, softly pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 1.5–6 cm long, densely pubescent. Inflorescences lax, extra-axillary, irregularly branched, densely pubescent; peduncles 1–3 cm long. Flowers with foetid sweet odour. Sepals lanceolate, 4–5 mm long, densely pubescent at least on mid-line. Corolla greenish-cream, united into a tube for c. 3 mm, the throat and tube sparsely pubescent within; lobes oblong, 6–7 mm long, weakly contorted, hairless except for sparse pubescence towards the mouth of the tube. Corolline corona absent. Staminal corona lobes c.3 mm long, fleshy and quadrate, dorsiventrally flattened. Follicles singly or paired held at an angle, narrowly ovoid, c.6–8 cm long, woody, with 4 well developed longitudinal wings, surface wrinkled, almost hairless. |
| Notes: | This species has so far only been recorded from widely separated locations in Kenya Tanzania and Mozambique but may well be under recorded and elsewhere in coastal regions. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | Along forest margins. |
| Altitude range: | Up to 400 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Known southeastern Kenya, northeastern Tanzania and central Mozambique. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 78. |
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