Antidesma vogelianum Müll. Arg.

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Tessa's Pool, Chimanimani

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Synonyms:	Antidesma membranaceum Müll. Arg. var. crassifolium Pax & K. Hoffm. Antidesma staudtii Pax
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Status:	Native
Description:	Evergreen shrub or small tree, sometimes scrambling, often with spreading or drooping branches. Young branches pubescent, becoming hairless with age. Leaves leathery, elliptic-oblanceolate with a distinct acuminate driptip, dark glossy green above, paler or sometimes rusty brownish beneath, usually hairless except for the midrib and main veins; stipules linear to narrowly elliptic, up to 15 mm long, pubescent. Male inflorescences terminal or subterminal on lateral shoots, up to 13 cm long. Female inflorescences similar, unbranched. Fruit ellipsoid, strongly compressed, green to whitish at first then red to purple-black when ripe.
Type location:	South Nigeria
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Derivation of specific name:	vogelianum: after either Julius Rudolph Theodor Vogel (1812-1841) or his brother Eduard Vogel, co-director of the Bonn Botanical Gardens. Both were German, explorers, botanists and plant collectors.
Habitat:	A understorey species of evergreen and riverine forest.
Altitude range:	Up to 1900 m
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N,W,C
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Lp,N,C
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 407. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 6. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 251. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 40. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 108 - 110. (Includes a picture). Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 85. Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Dowsett-Lemaire, F., Congdon, C., Branch, B., Collins, S., Curran, M., Dowsett, R,J., Fishpool, L., Francisco, J., Harris, Kopp, M. & de Sousa, C. (2012). Mt Mabu, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Page 73. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 97.

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