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| Date: | 10 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 214 |
| Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
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| Location: | Caprivi: Near Ngoma: In Terminalia sericea woodland. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D3 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Shrub; Notes: Shrub, 1.5 m high. Branches green-brown with white floccose indumentum especially conspicuous on young branchlets which also bear dense, pale brown, stellate indumentum and scattered, straight prickles. Leaves spirally arranged, simple; petiole slender, adaxially grooved, yellow-green, 10-20 mm long, curved, densely pubescent; lamina ovate, apex acute, base rounded but oblique, margin entire, sinuate, 30-55 x 12-20 mm, dull yellowish olive-green with dense brownish, stellate hairs on both surfaces tending to become adaxially glabrate, venation abaxially prominent, yellowish, furry to the touch. Flowers past. Fruit a berry in axillary, scorpioid cymes, usually 2-3/cluster, globose, fleshy, up to 1 cm in diameter, shiny, orange-red when mature, poisonous. Sepals 4, fused, persistent at fruit base. Seeds many, cream-coloured, flattened, discoidal, 2-3 mm in diameter, embedded in fleshy pulp. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.875000, 24.625000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |