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Combretum mweroense
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Habit
Margins of Itigi thicket and munga woodland
Nsumbu National Park
Jun 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Margins of Itigi thicket and munga woodland
Nsumbu National Park
Jun 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Margins of Itigi thicket and munga woodland
Nsumbu National Park
Jun 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Scrambler or shrub up to c. 1·2 m. high, leafless when flowering; branchlets coarsely tomentose when young. Leaves opposite; lamina 4–5 x 2·5 cm., ovate, tomentose, acuminate at the apex, cordate at the base; lateral nerves 6–7 pairs; petiole 1 mm. long. Inflorescences of dense abbreviated subsessile lateral spikes up to 2·5 cm. long; rhachis coarsely tomentose with black stipitate glands. Flowers pink to reddish-yellow. Lower receptacle c. 3 mm. long, very densely sericeous-pilose; upper receptacle up to 12 mm. long, 2–2·5 mm. wide at the base and up to 4 mm. wide at the apex, tubular to infundibuliform, sericeous-pilose, scarcely constricted but somewhat expanded at the apex. Sepals up to 4-·5 mm. long, very narrowly triangular, with black stipitate glands (sometimes sparse) up to 0·8 mm. long. Petals 4–5 x 1·5 mm., narrowly elliptic, densely pilose, not exceeding the sepals. Stamen-filaments 14–20 mm. long; anthers orange-red, 0·9–1·1 mm. long. Disk rather fleshy, 2 mm. in diam., margin pilose, not free. Style 18–20 mm. long. Fruit up to 4·5 x 4 cm., subcircular to oblong in outline, densely pubescent and with black stipitate glands up to 0·8 mm. long, apical peg absent, wings c. 10 mm. broad, chartaceous, decurrent into the stipe, stipe up to 5 mm. long. From FZ, Vol 4, Part 0, page 100, (1978) Author: A. W. Exell |
| Type location: |
Zambia, Mweru Plateau |
| Notes: | Red data status: VU D2 |
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| Habitat: | Semi-deciduous thicket; in chipya woodland; semi-deciduous scrub. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, not known elsewhere |
| National distribution: | N |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Vulnerable |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Friday 24 July 2020 |
| Literature: |
Exell, A.W. (1978). Combretaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Page 156. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Combretum mweroenseBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Combretum mweroense
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Combretum mweroense
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Combretum mweroense
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Combretum mweroense
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Combretum mweroense
JSTOR Plant Science: Combretum mweroense
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Combretum mweroense
Plants of the World Online: Combretum mweroense
Tropicos: Combretum mweroense
Wikipedia: Combretum mweroense
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