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| Synonyms: |
Canthium pauciflorum (Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh.) Kuntze Canthium sp.no.1 sensu R.B. Drumm. (Chase 3576) Plectronia pauciflora Klotzsch ex Eckl. & Zeyh. |
| Common names: | Kidney-fruit Canthium (English) Mountain turkey-berry (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub or small tree, sometimes a liana, 1.7–10 m tall, often armed with supra-axillary spines. Bark grey. Leaves well spaced along older branches, or less often restricted to new growth, broadly elliptic or sometimes ovate, 0.5–4 cm long, hairless, thinly textured, turning blackish when dry, 3–4 main pairs of lateral veins; ciliate pit-domatia sometimes present; petioles 3–6 mm long; stipules triangular, 2–3 mm long, sheathing at base. Flowers 5-merous, solitary, or 2-3 together; peduncle 10–14 mm long; pedicels 8–15 mm long, or 16–28 mm long in solitary flowers. Corolla greenish-white; tube 2.5–4 mm long, inside with a ring of hairs near the top and; lobes oblong-triangular, c. 2 mm long. Fruit narrowly obovate or obcordate in lateral view, 9–15 mm wide, more or less indented at the apex. |
| Type location: |
South Africa |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | kuntzeanum: after Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (1843-1907), German botanist, author and collector. |
| Habitat: | In evergreen forest and evergreen scrub. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1500 - 220 m |
| Flowering time: | Oct - Jan |
| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape, Eastern Cape South Africa. |
| National distribution: | E |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Page 337. Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 918. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 11. Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 1090. 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 71. Schmidt, E., Lötter, M. & McCleland, W. (2002). Trees and shrubs of Mpumalanga and Kruger National Park Jacana, Johannesburg, South Africa Pages 618 - 620. (Includes a picture). |
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