Cadaba natalensis Sond.

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Synonyms:
Common names: Green-leaved wormbush (English)
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Shrub or small scrambling tree, up to c. 3 m tall. Bark greyish-brown; young branches covered in whitish lenticels. Leaves spirally arranged or clustered on dwarf spur branchlets, elliptic to obovate, up to 40 × 15 mm, dark green, thinly textured, hairless or finely hairy; apex rounded or notched, often bristle-tipped. Flowers solitary or in clusters on the spurs, mauve to purple-red; petals absent; stamens and style on a long stalk, called the andogynophore. Fruit narrowly cylindrical, up to c. 50 × 5 mm, warty, hairless. Seeds embedded in an red powdery pulp.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: natalensis: of Natal, South Africa
Habitat: Occurring in very dry bush and thickets.
Altitude range:
Flowering time:Jun - Oct
Worldwide distribution: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Mozambique distribution: GI,M
Growth form(s): Tree, shrub over 2 m.
Endemic status:
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Content last updated: Monday 17 December 2007
Literature:

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 149. (Includes a picture).

Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 231.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 238.

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 32.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 44.

Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 24.

Wild, H. (1960). Capparaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 209 - 210. (Includes a picture).

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Cadaba natalensis.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=124560, retrieved 29 March 2024

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