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Uapaca robynsii De Wild.

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Synonyms:	Uapaca benguelensis sensu Topham, non Müll. Arg.
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Frequency:	Locally common
Status:	Native
Description:	An often stunted, spreading shrub or small tree up to 7 m high, with gnarled divaricate branches often arising from near the ground; bark deeply-fissured, grey to black or brownish-black.Young twigs stout 1–1.5 cm in diameter, densely woolly. Leaves broadly obovate to suborbicular-obovate, sometimes elliptic-oblong, saddle-shaped, 6–23 cm long, thickly leathery, dark or dull grey-green and hairless above, except on the midrib and lateral nerves when young, densely whitish or rusty woolly beneath, midrib often bright yellow; lateral nerves in 10–18 pairs, often almost perpendicular to the midrib, not prominent or slightly impressed above, not or scarcely prominent beneath; margin entire or rarely undulate-sinuate; petioles 1–8 cm long, fairly stout. Stipules subulate-filiform, 1–2.5 cm long, densely hairy, soon falling. Inflorescences usually borne among or just below the leaves. Male flowers on peduncles 1–2 cm long, calyx lobes 5; stamens 5, creamy-yellow. Female flowers on peduncles 3–4 mm long, extending to 5 mm in fruit, pubescent, calyx 4 mm in diameter, scarcely lobed. Fruits ellipsoid, 3 × 2.5 cm, smooth, densely rusty hairy when young, yellowish when fresh, reddish-brown when dried.
Type location:	DRC, Katanga
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:	robynsii: after (Frans Hubert Edouard Arthur) Walter Robyns (1901-1986), Belgian botanist and former Director of the Jardin Botanique National de Belgique (National Botanic Garden of Belgium).
Habitat:	In woodland with Brachystegia, Isoberlinia and Uapaca, wooded grassland, sometimes locally dominant, usually in sandy or rocky, well drained soils on hillsides or escarpments, also in watershed wooded grassland and plains on Kalahari Sand, sometimes by da
Altitude range:	1300 - 2000 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Katanga, DRC, Zambia and northern Malawi.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N,W,C,E
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,Mc,E,C
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Content last updated:	Friday 13 January 2017
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 151. (Includes a picture). Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 51. Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Page 102.

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