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Dichapetalum rhodesicum
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Photo: Bart Wursten
By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp.
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp.
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp.
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp.
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road to Hwange NP, Main Camp.
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small suffrutex shrub with shoots up to c. 60 cm high. Branches densely covered in golden-brown woolly hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate-ovate, 5-12 cm long, discolorous, green with fine brownish pubescence above, densely covered in grey-green woolly hairs below; petiole, midrib and margin with golden-brown hairs. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters, yellowish, pubescent. Fruit ovoid, densely covered in golden-brown woolly hairs and shallowly 3-lobed when young. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | rhodesicum: of Rhodesia, referring (in this case) to both Northern and Southern Rhodesia, now Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Habitat: | Occurring in open woodland,and wooded grassland, in Zimbabwe mainly on Kalahari sand. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Northern Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | W |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Sunday 31 January 2010 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 13. 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 39. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 54. Torre, A.R. (1963). Dichapetalaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 326. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Dichapetalum rhodesicumBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Dichapetalum rhodesicum
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Dichapetalum rhodesicum
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