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Memecylon flavovirens
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Photo: Warren McCleland
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Photo: Warren McCleland
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
Photo: Warren McCleland
Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania
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| Synonyms: |
Memecylon cyanocarpum Gilg Memecylon gossweileri Gilg ex Engl. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much-branched tree or shrub, up to 7.5 m tall. Bark greyish-brown, irregularly fissured; younger branches narrowly 4-winged. Leaves opposite, elliptic to obovate, 1.5-4.5 cm long, leathery, somewhat discolorous, green above, more yellowish beneath, single veined from the base with midrib impressed above, prominent beneath; margin entire; petiole c. 2 mm long. Inflorescences c. 12-flowered, in clusters on older leafless axils. Flowers with a creamy-white, cupshaped receptacle; petals 4, white, triangular, c. 3.5 × 2.5 mm, keeled; stamens with filaments c. 5.5 mm long; anthers purple, with a minute dorsal gland. Fruit ellipsoid, purple-blue when ripe. |
| Notes: | This species has not been recorded for Mozambique in any literature but John Burrows, who has done extensive recent field reseach on the woody flora of Mozambique has confirmed its occurrence in the North of the country. |
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| Habitat: | In Brachystegia-Julbernardia woodland, often on escarpments in dry stony ground. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique. |
| Mozambique distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 14 October 2011 |
| 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 208. (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 708. (Includes a picture). Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Melastomataceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 222 - 224. (Includes a picture). Smith, P. & Allen, Q. (2004). Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Miombo Woodlands Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ISBN 1 84246 073 0 Pages 34 - 35. (Includes a picture). |
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