Fadogia triphylla Baker
var. triphylla

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Parklands Farm
Dec 2010
Photo: Mike Bingham

Semi-dambo suffrutex
Chilulu Village, Chief Nsama
Dec 2002
Photo: Mike Bingham

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Synonyms:	Fadogia buarica Robyns Fadogia coriacea Robyns Fadogia hockii De Wild. Fadogia kaessneri S. Moore
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with several unbranched stems up to c.1.2 m high but usually shorter, growing from a horizontal woody rootstock. Leaves subsessile, in whorls of 3-4, or opposite towards the tips of the stems, elliptic, ovate or obovate, hairless, paler beneath but not markedly discolorous. Inflorescences axillary,mostly 3-7-flowered on peduncles 5-30 mm long. Flowers fragrant; corolla white to greenish-yellow outside, creamy-green inside, hairless except for a ring of deflexed hairs inside the tube. Fruit c. 10 mm wide, dark bluish-green turning black when dry.
Type location:	Zambia, Fwambo
Notes:	This variety is distinguished by the stems and leaves being completely hairless and the leaves being broadly elliptic, usually more than 2 cm wide.
Derivation of specific name:	triphylla; with three leaves; referring to the 3-whorled leaves but this is not unique to this species of Fadogia.
Habitat:	Miombo woodland and wooded grassland.
Altitude range:	540 - 1900 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Cameroon, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N,W,C
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,Cb,N,C,Lk
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Content last updated:	Wednesday 21 September 2016
Literature:	Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 276 - 277. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 241. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 88.

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