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Small shrub up to 3 m. tall; whole plant covered with brown woolly indumentum; leaf lamina 5-12 x 2.5-7 cm., ovate or lanceolate-ovate, sometimes slightly 3-lobed, acute at apex, cordate or subcordate at base, margin irregularly serrate; petiole up to 6 cm. long, stipules c. 7 mm. long, linear-lanceolate, densely pubescent; inflorescences leafy, composed of small cymes crowded at the nodes; peduncles of cymes and pedicels very short, up to 2 mm. long, bracts 3-4 mm. long, linear; sepals 4.5-8.5 mm. long, linear, subapical horn 0.2-0.5 mm. long, densely stellate-pubescent; petals yellow, 4-7 mm. long, linear-oblanceolate, rounded at apex, villous at base; stamens 8-10, filaments 6-7 mm. long; ovary 4-locular, globose; fruit 1-1.5 cm. in diameter including aculei, aculei numerous, covered in simple hairs or almost glabrous and with the terminal seate single, straight or slightly curved. |
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Derivation of specific name: | tomentosa: covered with densely matted woolly hairs. |
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Flowering time: | Sep - Feb |
Worldwide distribution: | Throughout tropical Africa and southern tropical America but in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the Flora Zambesiaca region. |
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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 Page 279. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. As Triumfetta tomentosa macrocerata 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 81. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 109. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 181. Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Pages 66 - 73. (Includes a picture). |
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