Premna senensis Klotzsch

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Flowers;
Protea Hill Farm;
Nov 2013
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Flowers;
Protea Hill Farm;
Oct 2010
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Flowers;
Protea Hill Farm;
Dec 2008
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Fruit;
Protea Hill Farm;
Jan 2016
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Fruit;
Protea Hill Farm;
Feb 2012
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Frequency:	common and widespread
Status:	Native
Description:	A much-branched shrub or small tree. One-year-old branchlets with conspicuous lenticels. Leaves opposite, occasionally whorled, papery, variable in size and shape, aromatic, petiolate. Flowers in small corymbs mostly terminal on short lateral shoots. Calyx and corolla white. Fruits subglobose, dark blue or blue-black when ripe.
Type location:	Mozambique
Notes:	Flowering in Zambia: Oct-Dec Fruit with an unpleasant taste.
Derivation of specific name:	senensis: from Sena on the Zambezi River in Mozambique
Habitat:	Riparian and termite mound thickets.
Altitude range:	Up to 1270 m
Flowering time:	Nov - Feb
Worldwide distribution:	Botswana, Burundi, Caprivi - Namibia, DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	B,N,W,C,E,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Cb,N,E,Lk,S,W
Growth form(s):	Tree, shrub over 2 m.
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 2 February 2016
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 841. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Page 575. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 271. Fernandes, R. (2005). Lamiaceae (subfamilies: Viticoideae and Ajugoideae) Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 69 - 71. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 79. White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press.

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