Vangueria pygmaea Schltr.

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Vangueria pygmaea

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path to Mt Binga before "Mosquito Camp", Chimanimani National Reserve

Vangueria pygmaea

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path to Mt Binga before "Mosquito Camp", Chimanimani National Reserve

Vangueria pygmaea

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path to Mt Binga before "Mosquito Camp", Chimanimani National Reserve

Vangueria pygmaea

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path to Mt Binga before "Mosquito Camp", Chimanimani National Reserve

Vangueria pygmaea

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along path to Mt Binga before "Mosquito Camp", Chimanimani National Reserve

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Synonyms: Pachystigma pygmaeum (Schltr.) Robyns
Pachystigma rhodesianum (S.Moore) Robyns
Vangueria nana K.Schum. ex Robyns
Vangueria rhodesiana S. Moore
Vangueria setosa Conrath
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Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Dwarf suffrutex, usually less than 20 cm tall, erect or prostrate, growing from a long rhizome. Leaves in pairs, rarely in whorls of 3, 4-10(16) cm long, oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, more or less densely set with somewhat bristly hairs; petiole very short (0-7 mm). Flowers in axillary 3-7-flowered clusters, mostly at ground level; calyx set with bristly hairs; corolla greenish outside, creamy-white inside, lobes 4-6 mm long, narrowly triangular, with a greenish apical appendage. Fruit yellow-brown or black, 1.5-2 cm in diameter, subglobose to obliquely pear-shaped.
Notes: The specimen in the images (Ballings & Wursten PB3134) represents the first record for Mozambique.
Derivation of specific name: pygmaea: pygmy, dwarfed, very small.
Habitat: In open ground, in short grassland, near vleis and around pans, often on sandy soils and termite mounds.
Altitude range: 1100 - 2280 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Limpopo, North-West and Mpumalanga, South Africa
Mozambique distribution: MS
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Content last updated: Wednesday 18 December 2019
Literature:

Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 242 - 244. as Pachystigma pygmaeum (Includes a picture).

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 248. as Pachystigma pygmaeum (Includes a picture).

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 73. as Pachystigma pygmaeum

Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 99. as Pachystigma pygmaeum

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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: Vangueria pygmaea.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=156100, retrieved 28 March 2024

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