Myrica microbracteata Weim.

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Higher slopes Mt Nyangani, Nyanga National Park

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Synonyms:	Morella microbracteata (Weim.) Verdc. & Polhill
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Status:	Native
Description:	Shrub, 1.2-3 m tall, dioecious or monoecious with male flowers at the base of otherwise female catkins. Leaves subsessile, linear-oblanceolate, 20-45 mm long, 5-8 times as long as broad, hairless but with golden glands beneath and sometimes also above; margin coarsely toothed in the upper part of the leaf; petiole 1-1.5 mm comprising the basal pulvinus. Male catkins 8-10 mm long; stamens 3-4. Female catkins 10-15 mm long, sometimes with a few male flowers at the base. Fruit globose to slightly depressed globose, 2.5-3 mm in diameter.
Notes:	This species is considered endemic to Mt Nyangani in Zimbabwe but the specimen in the images was apparently found c. 26 km Southwest of The actual mountain. Some literature also mentions its possible occurrence localized in South Africa.
Derivation of specific name:	microbracteata: with very small bracts.
Habitat:	Montane grassland among rocks and along streams.
Altitude range: (metres)	1200 - 2530 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Apparently only known from the Nyanga area, Zimbabwe (but see note).
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
Growth form(s):	Shrub over 2 m, shrub under 2 m.
Endemic status:	Endemic?
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Images last updated:	Wednesday 9 January 2019
Literature:	Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 124. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 233. As Myrica microbracteata 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 63. Polhill, R.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2006). Myricaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 258 - 259.

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