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| Date: | 10 May 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 441 |
| Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi: 30 km south of Katima Mulilo on Bukalo road: forest island on termite mound. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724C2 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Shrub; Notes: Densely branched shrub, 2 m high. Young branchlets perpendicular green to purplish, smooth, glaucous; lateral branchlets perpendicular to main axis, spine-tipped. Leaves alternate (often clustered), simple; petiole twisted, adaxially grooved/flattened, smooth, glabrous; lamina ovate to narrowly ovate, up to 40 x 12 mm, apex rounded to truncate, base rounded, margin entire, glabrous, glaucous, grey-green, midrib abaxially prominent. Spines straight, 8-20 mm long. Flowers in axillary clusters, 8 mm in diameter. Sepals 4, free, smooth, green-yellow, ovate. Petals 4, white, conspicuously bearded. Stamens 8. Fruits an ellipsoid, drupaceous berry. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000,24.375000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 5 |
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