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Acalypha acrogyna
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near base of Mt Bunga, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near base of Mt Bunga, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near base of Mt Bunga, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near base of Mt Bunga, Gorongosa National Park.
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| Frequency: | Rare |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Unarmed, much-branched scrambling shrub up to 3 m tall. Bark of smaller branchlets brownish and finely velvety when young. Leaves elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate, mostly 1.5-6 cm long, obtusely acuminate at the apex, rounded or cordate at the base, 3-5-veined from the base, sparsely pubescent,mainly on midrib and veins beneath and with tufts of hairs in the axils; margin crenate-serrate or almost entire; petiole mostly 2-5 mm long. Stipules narrowly triangular-lanceolate, 2-3 mm long, sparsely pubescent. Inflorescences unbranched, up to 7 cm long, usually on dwarf side branchlets, flowers mostly male with 1-3 female flowers at the top. Fruit somewhat, 3-lobed, up to 4 mm wide, sparsely pubescent and echinate. |
| Notes: | Apart from one uncertain record cited in Flora Zambesiaca volume 9-4: 199 (1996) this species has only recently been recorded from Mozambique. Only two species of Acalypha in Mozambique have inflorescences with female flowers at the top and male flowers below. A. acrogyna differs from A. sonderiana by its unarmed habit, slender branchlets with brownish bark and more acuminate leaves. |
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| Habitat: | In understorey of riverine and lake shore evergreen forest. |
| Altitude range: | 70 - 1200 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, eastern DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Saturday 7 January 2017 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 427. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 2. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 252. 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 198 - 199. |
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