Adenia stenodactyla Harms

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Along entrance road to Levasflor timber concession, Cheringoma

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SRGH

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Swanepoel Concession, Cheringoma

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Synonyms:	Adenia angustisecta Engl. & Harms Adenia stenodactyla Harms var. kondensis Harms
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial, tendrilous climber up to 2.5 m high, growing from a tuberous rootstock. Branches often greyish. Leaves deeply 1-5-partite or -foliolate, 4-20 cm long; lobes/leaflets linear to narrowly oblong, green above, grey-green, sometimes with purplish spots beneath, with 1-5 prominent veins from the base; petiole 1-5 cm long. Glands at the base of the lamina 2 or 4, 1-1.5 mm in diameter, on two separate wart-like appendages. Stipules linear, c. 1 mm long. Inflorescences on peduncles 1-8 cm long, up to 10-flowered in male inflorescences, 1-3-flowered in female. Flowers cream-coloured on pedicels 3-12 mm long. Capsule ellipsoid, 2.5-6 cm long,smooth and leathery on the surface.
Type location:	Tanzania
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Derivation of specific name:	stenodactyla: with narrow, slender "fingers", referring to the leaflets.
Habitat:	In grassland, scrub, woodland and on rocky hillsides.
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Worldwide distribution:	Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N
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Growth form(s):	Climber.
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Content last updated:	Saturday 11 June 2016
Literature:	Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Passifloraceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 395 - 396. Fernandes, R. & A. (1980). 79. Passiforaceae Flora de Moçambique Junta de Investigaçoes de Ultramar, Centro de Botanica Pages 23 - 25.

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