Croton menyharthii Pax

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Croton menyharthii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Ruia River, Kariba

Croton menyharthii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Ruia River, Kariba

Croton menyharthii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Ruia River, Kariba

Croton menyharthii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Ruia River, Kariba

Croton menyharthii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Ruia River, Kariba

Croton menyharthii

Photo: Bart Wursten
Ruia River, Kariba

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Synonyms: Argyrodendron bicolor Klotzsch
Croton kwebensis N.E. Br.
Common names: Rough-leaved croton (English)
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Description:
Shrub or small tree, up to 4 m tall. Bark brownish-grey; branchlets covered with pale whitish to yellowish hairy scales. Leaves alternate, elliptic to lanceolate, up to 9.5 cm long cm, yellowish-green above with a rough surface of sparse stellate hairs, densely covered in white to yellowish hairy scales below, with two small glands next to the petiole; margin entire. Flowers in short terminal spikes, unisexual, usually on the same tree, pale yellowish-green, c. 4 mm in diameter. Fruit a 3-lobed capsule, c. 6 mm in diameter, covered in greyish to yellowish scales and often with scattered black dots.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: menyharthii: after Lászlò Menyhárth, 1849–1897, Austro-Hungarian missionary and plant collector.
Habitat:
Flowering time:Sep - Dec
Worldwide distribution: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Botswana distribution: N,SW,SE
Growth form(s): Tree, shrub over 2 m.
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Literature:

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 442. (Includes a picture).

Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Pages 330 - 331. (Includes a picture).

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 252. As Croton menyhartii

Mannheimer, C. & Curtis B. (2009). Le Roux and Müller's Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Namibia Macmillan Education, Windhoek, Namibia. Pages 258 - 259. (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 41.

Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 278 - 279.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 56.

Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 207.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Botswana: Species information: Croton menyharthii.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=134800, retrieved 28 March 2024

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