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Elephantorrhiza burkei
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Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Matobo Hills, Shumbashaba
Photo: Meg Coates Palgrave
Matobo Hills, Shumbashaba
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| Synonyms: | |
| Common names: | Broad-pod elephant-root (English) Ililamba (Ndebele) Intolwane (Ndebele) Sumach elephant-root (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub or small tree usually 1-6 m high; bark dark-grey to reddish; young branchlets hairless. Leaves bipinnate, 7-18 cm long, mostly hairless; pinnae in 4-8 pairs; leaflets 9-32 pairs per pinna, narrowly oblanceolate to very narrowly elliptic or linear-oblong, 7-15 mm long, hairless, base only slightly asymmetric. Flowers cream or yellow, in racemes 5-12 cm long, hairless but with minute reddish mealy glands present round the base of the pedicels. Petals 3-4·5 mm. long. Pods 10-19 cm long. |
| Notes: | Most similar to Elephantorrhiza elephantina differs in being a shrub or small tree with branched perennial woody stems and not a suffrutex with annual stems; also in the leaflet-base which is less asymmetric than in E. elephantina. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In woodland and grassland, usually in rocky places. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 970 - 1370 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mpumalanga South Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | W |
| Growth form(s): | Tree, shrub over 2 m. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Saturday 10 January 2015 |
| Literature: |
Brenan, J.P.M. (1970). Mimosoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(1) Page 27. Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 218. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 14. Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Pages 308 - 309. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 64. Drummond, R.B. (1972). A list of Rhodesian Legumes. Kirkia 8(2) Page 215. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 242. 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 45. Schmidt, E., Lötter, M. & McCleland, W. (2002). Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park Jacana, Johannesburg, South Africa Pages 176 - 177. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 65. Van Wyk, B. & Van Wyk, P. (1997). Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa. Struik, South Africa Pages 512 - 513. (Includes a picture). Van Wyk, B. & Van Wyk, P. (2013). Field Guide to Trees of Southern Africa (Second edition) Struik, South Africa Pages 610 - 611. (Includes a picture). |
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