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Combretum gossweileri Exell

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Synonyms:	Combretum subglomeruliflorum De Wild.
Common names:
Frequency:	Local
Status:	Native
Description:	Scrambling evergreen woody climber up to c. 5 m; old stems fluted; bark grey-black to black-brown; branchlets albo-lepidote otherwise pubescent to nearly glabrous. Leaves opposite, often coloured and bract-like just below the inflorescences, somewhat glossy; lamina up to 10 x 4·5 cm, subcoriaceous, oblong or elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblong, usually glabrous (except for scales) or nearly so, rather densely lepidote but scales not contiguous and appearing somewhat impressed, apex blunt or rounded and sometimes shortly acuminate and mucronate, base usually subcordate or sometimes rounded. Inflorescences of axillary (more rarely terminal) usually rather congested or even subcapitate spikes usually 1.5–2 cm long (sometimes laxer and more elongate, up to 3.5 cm long) on a tomentose to sparsely lepidote peduncle 1–3 cm long or appearing paniculate by suppression of the upper leaves; rhachis tomentose to sparsely pubescent, lepidote; bracts 3 mm long, filiform, caducous. Flowers dull-yellow or cream or greenish, scented. Sepals 0.7 x 0.7 mm, deltate. Petals 1–2 x 1 mm, elliptic to broadly transversely elliptic, shortly unguiculate, glabrous. Fruit pale-green becoming pinkish, 2.3(3) x 2.4 cm, 4-winged, subcircular in outline, sparsely pubescent and lepidote, apical peg very short, wings up to 10 mm broad, stipe 2–3 mm long.
Type location:	Angola
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	gossweileri: named after J. Gossweiler who collected the type specimen in Angola
Habitat:	Riverine and riparian forest margins
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:	Apr - Jun
Worldwide distribution:	Angola, DRC and Zambia
FZ divisions:	B,N,W
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,Cb,N,W
Growth form(s):	Liane, shrub over 2 m.
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Images last updated:	Monday 4 August 2025
Literature:	Exell, A.W. (1978). Combretaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 142 - 143. (Includes a picture).

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Combretum gossweileri
African Plant Database: Combretum gossweileri
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Combretum gossweileri
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Combretum gossweileri
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Combretum gossweileri
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Combretum gossweileri
JSTOR Plant Science: Combretum gossweileri
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Combretum gossweileri
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