Corallocarpus boehmii (Cogn.) C. Jeffrey

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Corallocarpus boehmii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kutsaga, Harare

Corallocarpus boehmii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kutsaga, Harare

Corallocarpus boehmii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kutsaga, Harare

Corallocarpus boehmii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Cleveland Dam, Harare

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Synonyms: Kedrostis boehmii Cogn.
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Status: Native
Description:
Perennial herbs with annual prostrate or scandent, bristly-hairy stems, up to 2 m long. Leaves shallowly to deeply palmately 3-5-lobed, densely hairy on both surfaces, cordate at the base; margin with small spread-out teeth. Flowers in axillary clusters; male flowers on a long pedicel; female flowers sessile, cream to greenish-yellow. Fruit in subsessile clusters, up to 10-15 mm long, ellipsoid, not or slightly rostrate, densely hairy, bright red when ripe.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: boehmii: after Richard Böhm (1854-1884), a German plant collector in Tanzania in 1882.
Habitat: In woodland, grassland and thickets, often on rocky outcrops and termite mounds.
Altitude range: (metres) 1000 - 1470 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Widespread in tropical Africa
Zimbabwe distribution: N,W,C,S
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Images last updated: Wednesday 22 July 2009
Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 10.

Jeffrey, C. (1978). Cucurbitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Page 491.

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 38.


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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Corallocarpus boehmii.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=157110, retrieved 29 March 2024

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