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Lagynias dryadum
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along Beira Inhaminga road, Cheringoma.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along Beira Inhaminga road, Cheringoma.
Photo: Ton Rulkens
Just outside Chimoio.
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| Synonyms: |
Vangueria dryadum S. Moore |
| Common names: | Woodland pendent-medlar (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Straggling shrub or small evergreen tree. Leaves opposite, narrowly ovate to elliptic, dark green above, much paler below, densely velvety on both surfaces. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered axillary clusters, pale yellow, sweetly scented. Corolla lobes strongly reflexed when fully open; stigma conspicuously exserted. Fruit on long stalks pendent, near-spherical, crowned with persistent calyx lobes, brown when ripe, edible. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | dryadum: from dryos, Greek for a tree. |
| Habitat: | In riverine thickets, dry mixed woodland and on rocky hillsides. |
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| Flowering time: | Nov - Dec |
| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa |
| Mozambique distribution: | T,MS |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 15 July 2010 |
| Literature: |
Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 239 - 241. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 940. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 276. 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 72. |
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