Podocarpus milanjianus
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Quinta da Frontiera Botanical Garden, Manica District.
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Mt Tsetsera
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small valley North-east of Mt Binga, Chimanimani Mts
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Slopes below summit, Mt Mabu
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| Synonyms: |
Podocarpus ulugurensis Pilg. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Medium to large evergreen tree. Leaves subsessile, spirally arranged or clustered at the ends of branches, narrowly elliptic, thick and leathery, tapering to a sharp point; margins entire, rolled under. Male cones axillary, pinkish, up to 5 cm long. Female cones blue-grey produced on a conical, fleshy, purple berry-like receptacle. |
| Type location: |
Malawi |
| Notes: | This species was long misidentified or treated as a synonym of P. latifolius, which is a mainly South African species and only reaches as far North as the Chimanimani Mts of Zimbabwe and Mozambique. |
| Derivation of specific name: | milanjianus: of Mt Mulanje in Malawi, where the type specimen was collected. |
| Habitat: | Montane mist forest. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo-Brazzaville, DR Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan-South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Angola. |
| FZ divisions: | N,Z,T,MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Pages 46 - 47. (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 41. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 89. Included under Podocarpus latifolius (Includes a picture). Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 17. Included under P. latifolius Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 19. as Podocarpus latifolius Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & White, F. (1990). New and noteworthy plants from the evergreen forests of Malawi Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 60(1/2) Page 87. as Podocarpus latifolius Fisher E. & Killmann D. (2008). Illustrated Field guide to the Plants of Nyungwe National Park Rwanda. University of Koblenz-Landau. Pages 134 - 135. As Podocarpus latifolius (Includes a picture). Lewis, J. (1960). Podocarpaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 84 - 86. (Includes a picture). 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 12. Included under Podocarpus latifolius Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 37. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 17. as Podocarpus latifolius Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 1. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 153. as Podocarpus latifolius Vollesen, K. & Merrett, L. (2019). Field Guide to the (wetter) Zambian Miombo Woodland. Part 1 (Ferns & Monocots) GVPedia Communications Page 111. as Afrocarpus latifolius (Includes a picture). White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press. Pages 3 - 5. (Includes a picture). White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pages 87 - 88. as Podocarpus latifolius (Includes a picture). Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 80. |
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