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Homalium dentatum
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Photo: Geoff Nichols
Photo: Geoff Nichols
Photo: Geoff Nichols
Photo: Geoff Nichols
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Port Shepstone
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| Synonyms: |
Blackwellia dentata Harv. Homalium chasei Wild |
| Common names: | Brown-ironwood (English) |
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| Description: |
Medium-sized to tall tree. Bark grey, fairly smooth but flaking in older trees; young branches with conspicuous pale lenticels. Leaves broadly ovate, obovate to almost circular, 4-13 cm long, thinly textured, bright to deep green on both surfaces, veining slightly raised above and conspicuous below, hair-tuft domatia sometimes present in the axils of the veins below; margin coarsely toothed or scalloped. Flowers in axillary branched heads, yellowish-green, c. 5 mm in diameter, unpleasantly scented. Fruit a very small obovoid capsule, c. 3 mm in diameter, densely covered in short soft hairs. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | dentatum: toothed, dentate |
| Habitat: | |
| Flowering time: | Jan - May |
| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape. |
| Botswana distribution: | |
| Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 32. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 21. Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & White, F. (1990). New and noteworthy plants from the evergreen forests of Malawi Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 60(1/2) Page 78. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 261. Also as Homalium chasei Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 75. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 105. Wild, H. (1960). Flacourtiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Pages 289 - 292. Also as Homalium chasei (Includes a picture). |
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Flora of Zimbabwe: Homalium dentatum
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Homalium dentatumAfrican Plant Database: Homalium dentatum
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Homalium dentatum
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Homalium dentatum
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