Hippocratea indica Willd.

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Along western boundary road, Zambezi National Park.

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Base of Mt Bunga, Gorongosa National Park.

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Chironde area, Coutada 12, Cheringoma

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Zambezi Private School area, 3 km from Katima Mulilo

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Synonyms:	Reissantia indica (Willd.) N. Hallé
Common names:	Mopane paddle-pod (English)
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Status:	Native
Description:	Scrambling shrub or true liane. Young branches characteristically 4-angled with indistinct lenticels. Leaves, obovate to oblong-elliptic, 4-15 cm long, greyish- or yellowish-green, glabrous; apex tapering with a distinct tip, margin shallowly crenate-dentate with glandular teeth. Flowers in terminal and axillary branched heads, very small, yellowish. Fruit with 2 spreading flattened mericarps, oblong to elliptic, each c. 5 cm long, yellow-green, smaller than in most other species in the genus.
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Derivation of specific name:	indica: of India
Habitat:	In dry scrub and woodland, particularly Mopane woodland.
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Flowering time:	Oct - Jan
Worldwide distribution:	Widespread in Tropical Africa to Mpumalanga, South Africa. Also in Asia from India, Sri Lanka to Philippines and Timor.
National distribution:	N
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Images last updated:	Thursday 21 December 2017
Literature:	Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 519. (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 255. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 33. Robson, N.K.B. (1966). Celastraceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(2) Pages 413 - 414.

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