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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrub or small tree, 2-8 m tall. Leaves glabrous, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, 3-8 × 1-3 cm; apex shortly acuminate; margin entire or shallowly serrate; glands 1-2 at the base, sometimes also with 1 or 2 near the margin as well. Petiole 3-5 mm long. Inflorescences of spikes borne on lateral branches, consisting entirely of male flowers or with one female flower at the base. Male bracts broadly ovate with a discoid gland on each side, enclosing many flowers. Female bracts 3-partite, ± laciniate. Male flowers: pedicels c. 1mm; calyx-lobes 3, triangular, yellowish; stamens 3. Female flowers: pedicels 3-6 mm (-10 mm in fruit); calyx-lobes 3; ovary 3-lobed; styles 3. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule, 1.5 × 2 cm, spltting into three 2-valved cocci, each valve bearing an appendage 2 mm long. Seeds 7 × 5 mm, smooth, flecked and spotted with darker brown. |
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| Habitat: | In coastal thickets and forest margins and in wooded grassland on sandy soils. |
| Altitude range: | Up to 1500 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique and South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal) |
| Mozambique distribution: | Z,GI,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 24 June 2012 |
| Literature: |
Coates Palgrave K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 522. (Includes a picture). Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae FZ 9(4) Page 323. |
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