Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl.

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Domboshawa.

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North of Prince Edward Dam

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Frequency:	Frequent
Status:	Native
Description:	Small shrub up to c. 1.3 m tall, growing from a long taproot. Branches greyish-brown hairy, becoming more or less hairless and reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, ovate to ovate-oblong, up to 6.5 cm long, more or less densely greyish to greyish-brown hairy on both surfaces; margin irregularly serrate; petiole 5-15 mm long. Flowers in axillary 1-few-flowered shortly pedunculate clusters. Sepals linear, 6-9 mm long, reflexed, hairy; petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 mm long; stamens 9-10, c.6 mm long. Fruit up to 6 mm in diameter covered in numerous slender spiny bristles; bristles covered in stellate hairs and a short tuft of 6-8 terminal setae.
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Habitat:	Brachystegia woodland.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution:	N,W,C,E,S
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Images last updated:	Thursday 22 December 2011
Literature:	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 115. 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 81. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 76. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 109. Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 70.

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