Psychotria pumila Hiern
var. pumila

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Near Kopje Tops, Mavhuradonha Wilderness Area

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Kopje Tops, Mavhuradonha Wilderness Area

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By road to Kopje Tops, Mavhuradonha Wilderness Area

Picture: Alistair Hull
Between Chitake and Mondo rivers, about 50 meters north of track running east to west connecting these two rivers

Habit
Miombo woodland
Lilayi Lodge, Lusaka
Jan 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Miombo woodland
Lilayi Lodge, Lusaka
Jan 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Psychotria albidocalyx Petit var. subumbellata Psychotria brachythamnus K. Schum. & K. Krause
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Status:	Native
Description:	Subshrub with erect shoots (2)5-30 cm tall growing from ± horizontal underground stems; stems shortly densely pubescent, glabrescent or glabrous, older stems longitundinally ridged; leaf blades 2-14 x 0.5-5.8 cm, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or sometimes ovate to obovate or oblanceolate, usually markedly discolorous with the underside pale or quite whitish, petiole 0.1-1 cm; stipules prominently bilobed with base 2.5-5 mm long and lobes 1.5-4 mm long; flowers 5-merous, in few to many flowered condensed subumbelliform cymes 1-1.5 cm in diameter; peduncle 0.5-6.5 cm long, pedicles 1-5(7) mm long; calyx 1 mm long with unequal short subtriangular to ovate lobes up to 0.3 mm long; corolla white, glabrous outside, tube (2.5)3-5 x c. 1 mm, oblong-lanceolate; drupes green turning yellow, orange and finally bright red with 2 subgloboes pyrenes 5-6 mm in diameter; seeds dark red, 3.5 x 3.5 x 2 mm, semi-ellipsoid or semi-globose.
Type location:	Mozambique
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Derivation of specific name:	pumila: dwarf
Habitat:	Brachystegia-Julbernardia-Uapaca woodland, particularly in rocky places, plateau woodland, open savanna woodland or occasionally in grassland
Altitude range:	100 - 1740 m
Flowering time:	Dec - Feb
Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N,W,C,E,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,N,E,Lk,S
Growth form(s):	Tree.
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 20 April 2021
Literature:	Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 277. as Psychotria albidocalyx 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 73. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 91. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 167. Verdcourt, B. (1988). Rubiaceae, Part 1 Flora Zambesiaca 5(1) Pages 26 - 27.

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