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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Medium-sized to large tree, often coppicing from old trunks. Bark grey to brown, flaking off to reveal distinctive, often concentric markings. Leaves opposite, subopposite or alternate, broadly elliptic to obovate, 5-18 cm, dark green with translucent gland-dots; midrib and veins indented above; apex sharply tipped; margin irregularly toothed to almost entire, often rolled under. Flowers in short axillary spikes, near the ends of branches, yellowish, unisexual on different trees. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 1.5 cm, fleshy, hairless, red when ripe. |
Type location: |
South Africa |
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Derivation of specific name: | monospora: 1-seeded |
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Flowering time: | Jun - Oct |
Worldwide distribution: | From Cameroon and the Sudan southwards to East Africa and South Africa |
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | |
Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
Growth form(s): | Tree, shrub over 2 m. |
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Insects associated with this species: | Papilio dardanus cenea (Food plant) |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 212. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Pages 212 - 213. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 237. 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 62. Stannard, B.L. (1997). Monimiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(2) Pages 43 - 44. (Includes a picture). Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 8. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 123. |
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