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Acalypha clutioides
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Habit
Large flat open sandy dambo grassland
Mangi, Lualaba Province
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Large flat open sandy dambo grassland
Mangi, Lualaba Province
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Inflorescence
Large flat open sandy dambo grassland
Mangi, Lualaba Province
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: | |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
A densely caespitose perennial herb or suffrutex up to 50 cm tall, from a stout woody rootstock; stems many, simple, densely leafy, pilose or pubescent. Leaf blades 0.5–3 × 0.4–1.2 cm, elliptic-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, rounded to shallowly cordate at the base, sparingly pilose above, pubescent along the midrib and main nerves beneath, chartaceous, 5-nerved from the base, with tertiary nerves parallel and fairly prominent beneath; lateral nerves in 1–3 pairs, slightly prominent above, fairly prominent beneath. Petioles 0.5–2 mm long, or leaves subsessile. Male racemes up to 5 cm long, axillary, solitary, densely flowered, on peduncles up to 2 cm long; bracts 1.5 mm long, linear-spathulate. Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; buds subglobose, sparingly pubescent, greenish-brown; anthers minute, cream-coloured. Female flowers axillary, solitary; peduncles 2 mm long; bracts 5 × 8 mm, palmatipartite with lobes linear-lanceolate and acuminate, pubescent without, glabrous within; flower subsessile within the bract; sepals 3, 2 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acute, ciliate; ovary 2 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, pubescent, hirsute and tuberculate at the apex; styles 4 mm long, free, fimbriate, red. Fruits 3 × 3 mm, 3-lobed, pubescent-pilose, yellowish. Seeds 2 × 1.5 mm, ovoid, dark brown. |
| Type location: |
Zambia |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | clutioides: Clutia-like, a genus once included in the same family, Euphorbiaceae, but now placed in a closely related family, Peraceae. |
| Habitat: | Watershed grassland plains, on Kalahari Sand, in sandy dambos and in moist deep black soil or in Uapaca woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1200 - 1400 m |
| Flowering time: | Sep - Nov |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC and Zambia |
| National distribution: | W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 187 - 188. (Includes a picture). |
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