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Strychnos gossweileri
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Habit (flowering)
Kalahari scrubland (degraded by agricultural activity)
Liangati, Senanga District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Kalahari scrubland (degraded by agricultural activity)
Liangati, Senanga District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Kalahari scrubland (degraded by agricultural activity)
Liangati, Senanga District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Habit (Fruiting)
Kalahari woodland
Mawela, Senanga District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Fruit
Kalahari woodland
Mawela, Senanga District
Apr 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Strychnos caespitosa R.D.Good |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small fire resistant savanna shrub, 10–50 cm high, or climbing shrub or liana, 2–5 m high climbing and about 10–20 m long or more. Trunk in shrub very thin, about 0.5 cm in diameter or in liana up to 12 cm in diameter. Leaves with a glabrous, 2–5 mm long petiole; lamina mat or slightly shining and dark green above, dull or slightly shining and paler and often glaucous beneath, elliptic, obovate, or on the main axis (climbers) subcircular, 2–11 x 1–5 cm, acute, apiculate, or shortly acuminate at the apex, cuneate or less often rounded at the base, glabrous on both sides. Inflorescence axillary, solitary, more or less congested, usually few–flowered, much shorter than the leaves, 1–2 times branched. Flowers 4(5)–merous. Sepals connate at the base, equal or subequal, subcircular, 1–2 times as long as wide, 1.2–1.4 x 1–1.2 mm, obtuse or subacute at the apex, glabrous on both sides, often very minutely ciliate. Corolla in the mature bud 3.5–5.5 times as long as the calyx, 5.2–6.7 mm long, slightly contracted somewhat beneath the throat, and tapering at the apex, white with often pale green tips at the lobes, outside glabrous or sometimes minutely papillose–pubescent, inside densely pilose to glabrous on the lobes and sometimes also in the tube; tube cylindrical or nearly so, 2–3.5 times as long as the calyx, 1.4–2 times as long as the lobes, 3–4.5 mm long, at the throat 1–2 mm wide; lobes oblong, 2.2–2.5 mm, acute, recurved. Fruit orange–yellow or yellowish, immature glaucous, small, soft, obovoid or ellipsoid, 1.5 x 1–2 x 1.5 cm, apiculate at the apex, often slightly obliquely pedicellate, 1–seeded, with a smooth, thin skin. Seed flattened, obliquely ellipsoid, 13 x 8 x 4 to 16 x 11 x 6 mm, at one side with a deep pit at the other with a bulge surrounded by a shallow groove. |
| Type location: |
Angola |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | gossweileri: named after J. Gossweiler who collected the type specimen in Angola |
| Habitat: | Kalahari woodland |
| Altitude range: | |
| Flowering time: | Apr - Jun |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Cameroon, Congo Brazzavile, DRC and Zambia |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | B |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | W |
| Growth form(s): | Shrub under 2 m. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Tuesday 30 July 2024 |
| Literature: |
Fernandes, A. (1978). Barringtoniaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 218 - 219. (Includes a picture). Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (1983). Loganiaceae (inc. Buddlejaceae) Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 359 - 360. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Strychnos gossweileriBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Strychnos gossweileri
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Strychnos gossweileri
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Strychnos gossweileri
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iNaturalist: Strychnos gossweileri
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Strychnos gossweileri
JSTOR Plant Science: Strychnos gossweileri
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Strychnos gossweileri
Plants of the World Online: Strychnos gossweileri
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