Triumfetta digitata (Oliv.) Sprague & Hutch.

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Habit
Sandy open woodland
Lubuli area, degraded woodland along pathway to Chilongo Falls
Jan 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Sandy open woodland
Lubuli area, degraded woodland along pathway to Chilongo Falls
Jan 2020
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Ceratosepalum digitatum Oliv.
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Frequency:	Locally common
Status:	Native
Description:	Low shrub up to 60 cm tall or branches trailing and prostrate; branches densely ferruginously stellate-hairy when young; petiole up to 2.5 cm long, ferruginously hairy; leaf lamina 1.5-5 x 0.7 -1.4 cm, deeply 5-7 partite or digitate, leaflets oblanceolate with appressed stellate short and long hairs, margins serrate, apex acute to subacute, base cuneate; inflorescences in dense cymes opposite the bracts, bracts similar to the leaves but smaller; peduncles up to 2.5 cm; pedicels up to 5 mm long, bearing linear hairy bracteoles up to 8 mm; sepals 12-14 mm long, linear, narrowing to the apex, stellate hairy outside, with a horn 4-5 mm long inserted 0.75-1 mm below apex; petals yellow, 9-10 mm long, obovate and narrowed into a linear basal claw which is densely villous just above the base; stamens 35-40, c. 8 mm long; ovary depressed –globose, villous, 5-6 locular; fruit up to 3.5 cm in diameter including aculei, globose.
Type location:	Zambia - Abercorn (Mbala) Distr., Kawimbe (Fwambo), fl. ii.1893, Carson 1 (K)
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Habitat:	Brachystegia woodland
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Flowering time:	Jan - Feb
Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Tanzania and Zambia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	N,Nw
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Content last updated:	Friday 13 March 2020
Literature:	Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 67.

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