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Tarchonanthus camphoratus
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Picture: Lene Lauritsen
At the very end of Claremont Road, 30 kms SE of Bulawayo
Picture: Lene Lauritsen
At the very end of Claremont Road, 30 kms SE of Bulawayo
Picture: Lene Lauritsen
At the very end of Claremont Road, 30 kms SE of Bulawayo
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| Status: | Native |
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Shrub or small tree up to c.8 m, smelling of camphor. Bark with shallow ± vertical and anastomosing ridges, these ± fibrous in appearance. Leaves: petiole 0-6 mm; lamina variable in size from c.2 × 0.5 to c.8.5(-12) × 3.5(-5) cm, narrowly oblong-elliptic, elliptic or oblanceolate to narrowly obovate; upper surface glabrescent with numerous golden glands, grey-green; lower surface white-tomentose with prominent nerves; base cuneate; apex subacute, obtuse or rounded; margin entire. Male capitula with 10-25 florets. Female capitula with 4-5 florets; achenes c.2.5-3(-4) mm, ± flattened-ellipsoid, densely covered in long, sericeous-woolly hairs. |
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| Flowering time: | Feb-Aug |
| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in Africa, from Ethiopia south to South Africa, and in Saudi Arabia. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | S |
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| Content last updated: | Monday 19 August 2013 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 34. Coates Palgrave, M. (1989). Guide to the trees and shrubs of the Mukuvisi Woodlands ?publisher. Pages 9 - 10. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 278. 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 28. Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Pages 9 - 11. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 38. Steedman, E.C. (1933). Some Trees, Shrubs and Lianes of Southern Rhodesia. Page 83. |
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