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Diospyros lycioides
sericea
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Greystone Park NR
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Val D'Or
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Mukuvisi Woodland, road to Education Centre
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Haka Game Park
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Haka Game Park
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Haka Game Park
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| Synonyms: |
Royena sericea Bernh. |
| Common names: | Eastern blue-bush (English) Red star-apple (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Deciduous suffrutex, shrub or small tree up to 6 m. Bark grey, smooth. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, densely sericeous-pubescent; secondary nerves but not the main veins prominently raised. Male flowers solitary, axillary; calyx up to 8 mm, deeply lobed almost to base; corolla up to 1 cm, campanulate, creamy-white, 5-lobed to just below middle. Female flowers similar to male. Fruit up to 2 × 1.5 cm, ovoid or spherical, red, apiculate. Fruiting calyx up to 1.5 cm, accrescent; lobes narrowly triangular, strongly reflexed. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | lycioides: resembling a Lycium (Solanaceae); sericea: with silky appressed hairs, sericeous |
| Habitat: | In a wide variety of habitats, namely on termite mounds, in woodland and grassland, riverine vegetation and rocky places. |
| Flowering time: | Sep - Dec |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, as far south as the Eastern Cape |
| Botswana distribution: | |
| Growth form(s): | Tree, shrub over 2 m, shrub under 2 m. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 756. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 21. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 14. Coates Palgrave, M. (1989). Guide to the trees and shrubs of the Mukuvisi Woodlands ?publisher. Page 9. as Diospyros lycioides Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Pages 520 - 521. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 267. Drummond, R.B. (1981). Common Trees of the Central Watershed Woodlands of Zimbabwe. Natural Resources Board, Harare. Pages 184 - 185. (Includes a picture). Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 246. (Includes a picture). 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 39. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 54. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 81. Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 206. White, F. (1983). Ebenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 272 - 274. (Includes a picture). |
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