Dovyalis hispidula Wild

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Synonyms:
Common names: Bristly sourberry (English)
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Shrub or small tree. Bark greyish, branches with scattered pale lenticels, armed with slender, axillary spines, up to 4 cm, the stem often spiny near the base. Leaves obovate to broadly elliptic, small, usually c. 2 cm, dull green with bristly hairs on both surfaces and around the margin; translucent gland-dots visible when held against the light; margins entire or scalloped. Flowers small, greenish, stamens numerous. Fruit subspherical, fleshy, 1-2 cm in diameter, bristly, cupped by the small calyx lobes; bright red when ripe, edible.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: hispidula: minutely hispid, with rough, bristly hairs
Habitat: In open hot and dry mixed woodland.
Altitude range:
Flowering time:Oct - Nov
Worldwide distribution: Zimbabwe, Mozambique
Mozambique distribution: N,MS
Growth form(s): Tree, shrub over 2 m.
Endemic status:
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Content last updated: Saturday 14 February 2009
Literature:

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 639. (Includes a picture).

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 261.

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 53. Under Flacourtiaceae

Wild, H. (1960). Flacourtiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 284 - 285.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Dovyalis hispidula.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=140810, retrieved 19 March 2024

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