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Corallocarpus boehmii
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Kutsaga, Harare
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Kutsaga, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
Kutsaga, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
Cleveland Dam, Harare
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| Synonyms: |
Kedrostis boehmii Cogn. |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herbs with annual prostrate or scandent, bristly-hairy stems, up to 2 m long. Leaves shallowly to deeply palmately 3-5-lobed, densely hairy on both surfaces, cordate at the base; margin with small spread-out teeth. Flowers in axillary clusters; male flowers on a long pedicel; female flowers sessile, cream to greenish-yellow. Fruit in subsessile clusters, up to 10-15 mm long, ellipsoid, not or slightly rostrate, densely hairy, bright red when ripe. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | boehmii: after Richard Böhm (1854-1884), a German plant collector in Tanzania in 1882. |
| Habitat: | In woodland, grassland and thickets, often on rocky outcrops and termite mounds. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 1470 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,S |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Wednesday 22 July 2009 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 10. Jeffrey, C. (1978). Cucurbitaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Page 491. 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 38. |
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