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Myrica salicifolia
kilimandscharica
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Main road from Thazima gate to Chelinda near Luzero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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Lusero Forest, Nyika National Park
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| Synonyms: |
Morella salicifolia (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Verdc. & Polhill subsp. kilimandscharica (Engl.) Verdc. & Polhill Myrica humilis sensu White p.p. non Cham. & Schltdl. Myrica kilimandscharica Engl. Myrica usambarensis Engl. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Usually a dioecious tree 5-12 m tall but sometimes a shrub; bark brown, very rough, fissured; branchlets variously hairy or hairless, glandular. Leaves mostly very convex, oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, 4-8 cm long, 2-3 times as long as broad, sometimes slightly cordate and asymmetric at the base, hairless or or sparsely hairy especially on the midrib, dotted with golden gland-dots on both surfaces when young, pock-marked once the glands wither; margin entire or or coarsely toothed; petiole 3-10 mm long. Male catkins red in bud, dense, 5-15 mm long, extending to 25 mm. Female catkins more lax, up to 3.5 cm long. Fruit ovoid-globose, 3-4 mm wide, hairy or not, sometimes with a white waxy covering. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | Although mostly a sizeable tree it occasionally survives as a low suffrutescent shrub in regularly burned montane grassland. |
| Derivation of specific name: | salicifolia: with leaves like a Salix (Willow); kilimandscharica: of Mt Kilimanjaro where the type specimen of this subspecies was collected. |
| Habitat: | In montane forest, of as a secondary species, at margins of forest, along streams, at edges of Uapaca or Brachystegia woodland, in tree Erica scrub and sometimes as a small shrub in montane grassland. |
| Altitude range: | 1350 - 2530 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Tuesday 4 September 2018 |
| 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 215. as Morella salicifolia kilimandscharica kilimandscharica (Includes a picture). Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 19. As Myrica humilis Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 80. As Morella salicifolia Polhill, R.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2006). Myricaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 261 - 262. White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pages 401 - 404. As Myrica humilis (Includes a picture). |
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