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Synonyms:
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Randia micrantha K.Schum.
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| Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Large, somewhat scrambling shrub or small tree. Leaves opposite, elliptic to lanceolate, glossy green with indented veins and entire but wavy margins. Flowers in few-flowered clusters along the branches, creamy white with sharply reflexed corolla lobes, white hairs in the throat, and a bright red stigma. Fruit spherical, orange to brown-black when ripe. |
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| Notes:
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No less than 5 varieties have been described, all recorded from DR Congo. In many cases identifications of specimens are only at species level. |
| Derivation of specific name:
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micrantha: small-flowered |
| Habitat:
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In riverine fringes and evergreen forest. |
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| Worldwide distribution:
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Angola, Cabinda, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Burundi, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
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| Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature:
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Pauwels, L. (1993). Nzayilu N'ti Guide des arbres et arbustes de la region de Kinshasa - Brazzaville Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, Bruxelles Page 191.
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