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| Synonyms: |
Raphionacme loandae Schltr. Raphionacme monteiroae (Oliv.) N.E. Br. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial climber, growing from a cylindric-ovoid tuber, up to 30 cm long. Stems, 1-few, up to 8 m long, interpetiolar ridges sometimes with black glands. Leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic to obovate, up to 4.5 × 3 cm, somewhat fleshy, dark green and pubescent above, pale green and pubescent below; petiole 1-10 mm long, sometimes with black glands. Flowers in terminal and upper axillary inflorescences. Corolla light green to bright green, lobes ovate, 6-12 mm long, sup-spreading; margins folded back. Corona fleshy, hairless or minutely papillose; lobes fused to the corolla lobes like small pockets, 3-segmented; central segment 2-3 mm long, filiform, white; lateral segments obtriangular, c. 1 mm long, pinkish or purplish. Fruit in horizontally spreading, paired follicles, very narrowly ovoid, 70-110 mm long, tapering. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | monteiroae: after Mrs Rose Monteiro, wife of Portuguese naturalist Joachim Monteiro, who collected plants in Angola and Mozambique. |
| Habitat: | Occurring in dry deciduous woodland and scrub. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Venter, H.J.T. (2008). Taxonomy of Chlorocyathus (Apocynaceae: Periplocoideae) South African Journal of Botany 74 Pages 290 - 291. (Includes a picture). |
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