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| Date: | Jul 1996 |
| Recorder(s): | G Renehan |
| Collector(s): | G Renehan 5 |
| Determiner(s): | G Renehan |
| Confirmer(s): | |
| Herbarium: | |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Chingola; Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage and Chimpanzee Sanctuary, ca. 57 km NW of Chingola along Kafue River. UTM Coordinates: 557812.985, 8633679.801. |
| Location code(s): | 150 |
| Outing code: | |
| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Zambia |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1227B3 |
| Grid reference: | |
| FZ Division: | W |
| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Tree of medium height, ca. 5 m, with spreading crown and curving branches. Bark grey, very rough with vertical fissures. Fruit red/brown pods with many green to brown seeds inside; unripe pod is fuzzy, dried pod is not fuzzy; size ranges from 15-23 cm. Leaves green leathery with notched apice and base, ca. 10 cm in diameter; loses leaves in July-Aug. People eat dried pod. Leaves cooked in pot with water and smoke/steam is inhaled to get rid of coughs or demons. Collected 28 July 1996. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -12.333333,27.500000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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