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Ancylobothrys capensis
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Photo: Mark Hyde
Near the Witwater Safari Lodge, Waterberg mountains, South Africa
Photo: Mark Hyde
Near the Witwater Safari Lodge, Waterberg mountains, South Africa
Photo: Mark Hyde
Near the Witwater Safari Lodge, Waterberg mountains, South Africa
Photo: Mark Hyde
Near the Witwater Safari Lodge, Waterberg mountains, South Africa
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| Synonyms: |
Landolphia capensis Oliv. Pacouria capensis (Oliv.) S. Moore |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much-branched shrub, creeping or ascending to 3 m tall. Leaves coriaceous, petiolate; lamina elliptic to oblong; apex rounded to obtuse. Upper leaf surface matt with characteristic venation, the lateral nerves closely spaced, angled at almost 90° to the midrib and running to the margin and joined in a neatly scalloped submarginal vein. Inflorescence of 1-3-flowered cymes at ends of branches. Flowers white, sweet-scented. Calyx 4-5 mm long with linear lobes, densely ferrugineous appressed-pubescent. Corolla tube 7-10 mm long; lobes 1-1.5 times as long as the tube, narrowly obovate. Fruit up to 5 cm in diameter, subspherical. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | capensis: of the Cape |
| Habitat: | Rocky hillsides |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana and South Africa |
| Botswana distribution: | SE |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Wednesday 8 November 2017 |
| Literature: |
Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. & Kupicha, F.K. et al. (1985). Apocynaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 422 - 423. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 25. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Ancylobothrys capensisBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Ancylobothrys capensis
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ancylobothrys capensis
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JSTOR Plant Science: Ancylobothrys capensis
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Ancylobothrys capensis
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