Paropsia brazzeana Baill.

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c. 6 km from Gokwe along Gokwe - Kwekwe road.

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Synonyms:	Paropsia argutidens Sleumer Paropsia reticulata Engl.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Multi-stemmed small shrub up to 1 m high, growing from a thick rhizome or shrub up to 4 m tall with a short trunk up to 5 cm in diameter. Young branches covered in rusty hairs. Leaves alternate, elliptic-lanceolate to ovate, up to 13 × 7.5 cm, coriaceous, rusty hairy when young, mostly hairless when mature; margin with conspicuous glandular teeth. Flowers with the leaves, in 1-3-flowered axillary clusters, white to greenish-white. Capsule ovoid-subglobose, up to 2 cm long, covered in rusty hairs. Seeds c. 8 × 4 mm, ovoid, compressed, brown with an orange aril.
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Derivation of specific name:	brazzeana: named after Jacques de Brazza (1859-1888), French explorer and plant collector, who travelled together with his brother Pierre Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza in Gabon and the Congo.
Habitat:	Woodland and thickets on Kalahari sand.
Flowering time:	Jan - Apr
Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Cameroon, CAR, Congo Brazzaville, DRC, Botswana, Namibia (Caprivi), Zambia, Zimbabwe.
Growth form(s):	Shrub over 2 m, shrub under 2 m.
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Content last updated:	Monday 15 February 2016
Literature:	Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 262. Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Passifloraceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 372 - 374. 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 66. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 91. 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 221.

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