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Psydrax kraussioides
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Pungwe River at Katiyo Tea Estate
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| Synonyms: |
Canthium anomocarpum sensu F. White non DC. Canthium egregium Bullock Canthium henriquesianum sensu G. Taylor Canthium kraussioides Hiern Canthium malacocarpum (K. Schum. & K. Krausse) Bullock Plectronia kraussioides (Hiern) K.Schum. Plectronia malacocarpa K. Schum. & K. Krausse Plectronia pulchra K. Schum. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Scandent shrub or liane up to 7 m high with round or square, sometimes grooved, hairless branches. Leaves opposite, elliptic to oblong-elliptic, 4-14 cm long, somewhat shiny and leathery, hairless, veins often impressed above; petiole 5-9 mm long; stipules 4-7 mm long. Flowers in 2-15-flowered, umbellate axillary heads on pedicels 5-8 mm long. Corolla 5-lobed, greenish, cream or white with a ring of deflexed hairs in the tube. Fruit almost bispherical, 14-15 mm wide, greyish-green, sometimes galled. |
| Notes: | Similar in its general appearance and its method of climbing to the two species of Keetia occurring in Zimbabwe. However, Psydrax kraussioides can be separated by being entirely glabrous (there are usually some hairs on the leaves of the Keetia species) and the umbellate inflorescence lacks a peduncle (a peduncle is present in both species of Keetia). |
| Derivation of specific name: | kraussioides: resembling a Kraussia, another genus in Rubiaceae. |
| Habitat: | In riverine forest or thicket and evergreen forest by streams, swamp forest and Brachystegia woodland at margins of forests. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 450 - 1300 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Fairly widespread in tropical Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Friday 5 August 2016 |
| Literature: |
Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 361 - 362. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 926. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 46. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 276. As Canthium henriquesianum 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 73. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 167. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 99. |
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