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Adenia stenodactyla
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along entrance road to Levasflor timber concession, Cheringoma
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along entrance road to Levasflor timber concession, Cheringoma
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along entrance road to Levasflor timber concession, Cheringoma
Photo: Bart Wursten
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Photo: Bart Wursten
SRGH
Photo: Bart Wursten
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| Synonyms: |
Adenia angustisecta Engl. & Harms Adenia stenodactyla Harms var. kondensis Harms |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial, tendrilous climber up to 2.5 m high, growing from a tuberous rootstock. Branches often greyish. Leaves deeply 1-5-partite or -foliolate, 4-20 cm long; lobes/leaflets linear to narrowly oblong, green above, grey-green, sometimes with purplish spots beneath, with 1-5 prominent veins from the base; petiole 1-5 cm long. Glands at the base of the lamina 2 or 4, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, on two separate wart-like appendages. Stipules linear, c. 1 mm long. Inflorescences on peduncles 1-8 cm long, up to 10-flowered in male inflorescences, 1-3-flowered in female. Flowers cream-coloured on pedicels 3-12 mm long. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5-6 cm long,smooth and leathery on the surface. |
| Notes: | The specimen in the images (Ballings & Wursten PB1075, BR) represents the first record from the Manica-Sofala Division and South of the Zambezi. |
| Derivation of specific name: | stenodactyla: with narrow, slender "fingers", referring to the leaflets. |
| Habitat: | In grassland, scrub, woodland and on rocky hillsides. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. |
| Mozambique distribution: | Z,MS |
| Growth form(s): | Climber. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Saturday 11 June 2016 |
| Literature: |
Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Passifloraceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 395 - 396. Fernandes, R. & A. (1980). 79. Passiforaceae Flora de Moçambique Junta de Investigaçoes de Ultramar, Centro de Botanica Pages 23 - 25. |
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