Tannodia swynnertonii (S. Moore) Prain

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Road from Mt Selinda to Espungabera border post

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By road from Swynnerton Memorial to main road, Chirinda Forest

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Synonyms:	Croton swynnertonii S. Moore
Common names:
Frequency:	Local and occasional
Status:	Native
Description:	Small to medium-sized. Bark grey-brown to dark brown, smooth. Stems fluted and buttressed in older specimens. Leaves alternate oblong-elliptis or rarely ovate, 4-13 cm long, 3-5-veined from the base, pointed at the apex, hairless except for small tufts in the domatia in the axils of the veins beneath; margin entire but wavy; petiole up to 3 cm long, thickened at both ends. Flowers unisexual on different trees. Male flowers creamy-white, in spikes up to 23 cm long; female flowers creamy-green with petals c. 4 mm long, in more sparsely-flowered spikes up to 19 cm long. Fruit a small woody capsule, 3-lobed, 1-1.5 cm long, greenish, velvety and sometimes prickly.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	swynnertonii: named after Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton (1877-1938), well-known naturalist, who first recorded and collected many species of flora and fauna in and around the Chirinda Forest
Habitat:	In the subcanopy of evergreen forest.
Altitude range:	400 - 1200 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution:	Tanzania, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	MS
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Content last updated:	Sunday 8 July 2012
Literature:	Coates Palgrave K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 499. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 14. SABONET. Pretoria. Page 165. 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 43. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae FZ 9(4) Pages 306 - 307. (Includes a picture).

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African Plant Database: Tannodia swynnertonii
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Tannodia swynnertonii
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Tannodia swynnertonii
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Tannodia swynnertonii
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Tannodia swynnertonii
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tannodia swynnertonii
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Kew Herbarium catalogue: Tannodia swynnertonii
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West African Plants database: Tannodia swynnertonii