Anthocleista grandiflora
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Vumba Botanic Garden
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Road to Nyawamba, Eastern Highlands Tea Estate, Honde Valley
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Trail to Mt Binga near Nhamadzi river crossing, Lower Chimanimani Mts
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Slopes above Garuzo Motel, Mt Garuzo, Manica
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Tava Marsh, Moribane Forest
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Tava Marsh, Moribane Forest
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National Botanic Garden, Harare
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National Botanic Garden, Harare
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La Rochelle Botanic Garden, Penhalonga
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La Rochelle Botanic Garden, Penhalonga
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| Synonyms: |
Anthocleista zambesiaca Baker |
| Common names: | Big-leaf (English) Forest big-leaf (English) Forest fever tree (English) Tobacco tree (English) |
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| Description: |
Tall straight-stemmed evergreen tree. Leaves very large, clustered near the ends of branches, obovate-oblong, stiff and leathery. Flowers in terminal branched clusters, trumpet-shaped with reflexed petals, creamy-white with a greenish tube. Sepals 5-8 mm long, green, rounded. Corolla white with 11-13 lobes. Stamens as many as the corolla lobes, equal, with short filaments. Fruit fleshy, near-spherical, smooth. |
| Type location: |
Comores |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | grandiflora: large flowered |
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| Flowering time: | Sep - Jan |
| Worldwide distribution: | East Africa southwards to northern South Africa and the Comores. |
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| Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Biegel, H.M. (1977). Check-list of ornamental plants used in Rhodesian parks and gardens. Rhodesia Agricultural Journal. Research Report No. 3. Page 23. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 176. (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 787. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 6. Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Page 541. 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. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 268. Fischer, E. & Killmann, D. (2008). Illustrated Field guide to the Plants of Nyungwe National Park Rwanda. University of Koblenz-Landau. Page 136. (Includes a picture). Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. (1983). Loganiaceae (inc. Buddlejaceae) Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Page 329. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. & Bamps, P. (1979). Loganiaceae Flore d'Afrique Centrale (Zaire - Rwanda - Burundi) Jardin Botanique National de Belgique Pages 4 - 5. 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 58. Under Loganiaceae Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 138. Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 66. as Anthocleista zambesiaca Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 116. Timberlake, J.R., Bayliss, J., Dowsett-Lemaire, F., Congdon, C., Branch, B., Collins, S., Curran, M., Dowsett, R,J., Fishpool, L., Francisco, J., Harris, Kopp, M. & de Sousa, C. (2012). Mt Mabu, Mozambique: Biodiversity and Conservation Report produced under the Darwin Initiative Award 15/036. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London Page 74. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 92. |
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