Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A. Juss. ex Spreng.
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Urema floodplain, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain, Gorongosa National Park.
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Synonyms:
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Croton plicatus Vahl
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Prostrate or more or less erect, branched annual or perennial herb, up to 50 cm. Most parts densely covered in greyish stellate hairs. Leaves rhombic-ovate, up to 7 × 5 cm with a long petiole, plicate-undulate, especially when young, 3-5-veined from the base with 2 dark purple glands at the base; margin more or less entire or obscurely toothed. Flowers in leaf-opposed or pseudo-axillary inflorescences, covered in stellate hairs, unisexual. Male flowers orange-yellow or pinkish; female flowers, crimson-red, Fruit up to 5 × 9 mm, 3-lobed, densely covered in stellate hairs, reddish or bluish-purple when ripe. |
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Habitat:
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In alluvial soils on floodplains, mudflats and margins of pans. |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Throughout tropical Africa to northern SouthAfrica. Also in Egypt, Syria, Palestine and western Arabia. |
Mozambique distribution:
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T,MS,GI |
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Content last updated: |
Monday 24 March 2008 |
Literature:
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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 40.
Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 141 - 143. (Includes a picture).
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2023).
Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Chrozophora plicata. https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=134850, retrieved 25 March 2023
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