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| Frequency: | Local and uncommon. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Evergreen shrub or small tree, 2.5–6 m tall; bark on trunk and older branches greyish white, longitudinally fissured; young branchlets squarish to narrowly winged, pale reddish brown when young. Leaves elliptic to ovate, mostly 14–32 mm long, somewhat leathery, dark green above, paler beneath, 3-veined from the base, midrib and lateral veins impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole up to 2 mm long. Flowers in dense clusters at the bare nodes of older branchlets, rarely in leaf-axils, subsessile, white; pedicels concealed by bracts in bud, up to 2 mm long at flowering time and after; bracts depressed-ovate, 0.5–0.75 mm long. Calyx lobes broadly ovate to transversally elliptic or rhombic, 0.5 × 1 mm. Petals spatulate-obovate, 2 × 1–1.3 mm. Fruit globose, c. 8 mm in diameter, whitish to dark purple-black when ripe, crowned by persistent calyx lobes. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | parvifolia: with small leaves. |
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| Flowering time: | Sep - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | Restricted to southern Mozambique and northeastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | M |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Endangered |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 712. (Includes a picture). Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 90. Stone, R.D. & Ntetha, N.A. (2013). Warneckea parvifolia (Melastomataceae–Olisbeoideae), a new “sand-forest” endemic from northeastern KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) and southernmost Mozambique, and a phylogenetic analysis of eastern and southern African representatives of W. section Warnecke South African Journal of Botany 88 Pages 320 - 324. Protologue (Includes a picture). |
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