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Date: | 10 Feb 1988 |
Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
Collector(s): | GL Maggs 211 |
Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
Confirmer(s): | |
Herbarium: | WIND |
Habitat: | |
Location: | Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland. |
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Planted code: | Not planted |
Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D3 |
Grid reference: | |
FZ Divisions (Flora Zambesiaca): | |
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Altitude (metres): | 0 |
Notes: | Tree; Notes: Tall tree, 6 m high. Stems dark brown; branches knobbly due to leaf base scars, floccose indumentum; young branchlets bright green, rigid, terete with dense white short velutinous indumentum. Leaves opposite to subopposite, simple; petiole slender, almost geniculate, bright green to brown-tinted, adaxially grooved, twisted, densely velutinous; stipule minutely deltoid, brown membranous, caducous; lamina ovate to circular, apex attenuate to rounded to notched, base truncate to cuneate to rounded, margin entire but sinuate, 40-60 x 35-40 mm, thinly textured, adaxially glossy green, glabrous, abax. grey-green, glabrous, midrib prominent with lateral veins merging into margin. Flowers past. Fruit an ovoid-elongate berry, apiculate (style remains), 10 x 5 mm, green glaucous, glabrous, cupular remains of perianth at base, axillary (1/axil). Edible = muzinzila (Lozi) |
Latitude, Longitude: | -17.875000, 24.625000 |
Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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