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Gymnosporia mossambicensis
mossambicensis
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Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest
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Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Ndzou Camp, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Moribane Forest
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| Synonyms: |
Celastrus concinnus N.E. Br. Celastrus mossambicensis Klotzsch Maytenus mossambicensis (Klotzsch) Blakelock var. mossambicensis |
| Common names: | Long-spined maytenus (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Multi-stemmed shrub, armed or with straight spines up to 8 cm long. Branches reddish-brown, with pale lenticels when young. Leaves green, up to c. 5 × 2.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate, ovate to almost round, hairless; margins irregularly crenate-dentate; stipules triangular, small and inconspicuous. Inflorescences lax, axillary, branched, usually much longer than the leaves. Flowers white. Fruit a semi-fleshy, 3-lobed capsule, pendulous on a long stalk, greenish-white to reddish brown or carmine when ripe. |
| Notes: | This species is superficially similar to G. harveyana with which it has long been considered conspecific. It is however fairly easily distinguished by the much more lax and longer inflorescences which are usually much longer than the leaves; the absence of conspicuous thread-like stipules and the almost 3-sided fruits. |
| Derivation of specific name: | mossambicensis: of Mozambique |
| Habitat: | in thickets, Brachystegia and mixed woodland and along the margins of low-altitude forest. |
| Altitude range: | Up to 1000 m |
| Flowering time: | most of the year |
| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | N,Z,MS,GI |
| Growth form: | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Other sources of information about Gymnosporia mossambicensis:
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Gymnosporia mossambicensis
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Gymnosporia mossambicensis
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Gymnosporia mossambicensis
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Gymnosporia mossambicensis
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Gymnosporia mossambicensis
JSTOR Plant Science: Gymnosporia mossambicensis
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Gymnosporia mossambicensis
Tropicos: Gymnosporia mossambicensis
West African Plants database: Gymnosporia mossambicensis
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