Helinus mystacinus
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Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Along trail from the Serração to Chief Zomba, Zomba Community.
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Along trail from the Serração to Chief Zomba, Zomba Community.
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Along trail from the Serração to Chief Zomba, Zomba Community.
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Along trail from the Serração to Chief Zomba, Zomba Community.
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Climber with pubescent coiled tendrils. Branches reddish, pubescent. Leaves alternate, ovate; margins entire. Flowers with a distinct pentagonal disk, in axillary umbels, greenish white. Sepals ovate-deltate, pubescent. Petals obovate, rolled around the stamens. Fruit obovoid, pubescent, tuberculate. |
| Type location: |
Ethiopia |
| Notes: | This species is similar to Helinus integrifolius, differing mainly in the pubescence of the tendrils, flowers and fruits. |
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| Habitat: | At forest margins. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe; widely distributed in eastern Africa from Ethiopia to KwaZulu-Natal. |
| FZ divisions: | N,MS |
| Growth form(s): | Climber, shrub over 2 m. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 234. (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1966). Rhamnaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(2) Pages 436 - 438. (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 257. 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 69. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 217. |
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