Craterosiphon quarrei
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Scandent. Drupes yellow
Miombo woodland
Forest Inn
Sep 2010
Photo: Mike Bingham
Miombo woodland
Scandent. Drupes yellow
Forest Inn
Sep 2010
Photo: Mike Bingham
Hillwood
Dec 2010
Photo: Mike Bingham
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| Status: | Native |
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Shrub or small tree, occasionally climbing; bark on trunk corky, branches glabrous. Leaves opposite or subopposite, glabrous. Inflorescence an axillary fascicle (2)3(4)-flowered. Fruit a drupe with the sclerified pericarp extended into the persistent calyx tube. |
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| Habitat: | Miombo woodland, thicket patches. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, Angola, D. R. Congo |
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| Literature: |
Fowler, D.G. (2007). Zambian Plants: Their Vernacular Names and Uses, Kew Publishing Meerts, P. & Hasson, M. (2016). Arbres et arbustes du Haut-Katanga Jardin Botanique Meise, Belgique Page 253. (Includes a picture). Peterson, B. (updated by Verdcourt, B.) (2006). Thymelaeaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 89 - 90. (Includes a picture). Smith, P. & Allen, Q. (2004). Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of the Miombo Woodlands Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ISBN 1 84246 073 0 Pages 24 - 25. (Includes a picture). White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press. |
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