Plukenetia africana Sond.
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Photo: Warren McCleland
Pande, Inhassoro District
Photo: Warren McCleland
Pande, Inhassoro District
Photo: Warren McCleland
Pande, Inhassoro District
Photo: Warren McCleland
Pande, Inhassoro District
Photo: Warren McCleland
Pande, Inhassoro District
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road near Civetta Ranger Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
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Synonyms:
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Plukenetia hastata Müll. Arg. Pseudotragia scandens Pax Pseudotragia schinzii Pax Pterococcus africanus (Sond.) Pax & K. Hoffm. Sajorium africanum (Sond.) Baill.
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Perennial herb or suffrutex with prostrate, ascending or twining stems up to 80 cm long, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves lanceolate to linear, 1.5-12 cm long, often hastate-sagittate at the base, mostly hairless, sometimes tinged purplish; margin finely toothed to subentire; petiole 1-25 mm long. Inflorescences usually leaf-opposed racemes, 1-10 cm long with narrowly elliptic-lanceolate bracts subtending each flower, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Flowers unisexual with many male flowers and a female flower at the base of the inflorescences, greenish-cream or yellowish; pedicel of female flower extending to 1-2 cm in fruit. Fruit cross-shaped, 1.5-2 cm across with horned cocci, somewhat roughly pubescent, green. |
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Derivation of specific name:
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africana: African |
Habitat:
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In various types of deciduous woodland or wooded grassland, on dry sandy soils. |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Angola and Mpumalanga South Africa. |
Botswana distribution:
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N,SW,SE |
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Spot characters:
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Content last updated: |
Monday 22 August 2016 |
Literature:
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Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 94. (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 42. As Pterococcus africanus
Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 210 - 212. (Includes a picture).
Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 58. As Plukenetia africana
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-22
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2022).
Flora of Botswana: Species information: Plukenetia africana. https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135320, retrieved 26 May 2022
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