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Tarenna luteola
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Photo: Helen Pickering
Livingstone: drive past Bakota Sky (Sichinga Road 1974 map) about 500m further on, follow small bicycle path to the left for about 100m, on right
Photo: Helen Pickering
Livingstone: drive past Bakota Sky (Sichinga Road 1974 map) about 500m further on, follow small bicycle path to the left for about 100m, on right
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| Synonyms: |
Pavetta luteola Stapf |
| Common names: | Velvet-leaved butterspoon (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 4 m tall, sometimes scrambling or climbing. Bark grey to brownish, often cracking and peeling; branchlets at opposite right angles or even bending backwards, occasionally spine-tipped near the base. Leaves opposite and often clustered at the ends of side branches, obovate to elliptic, up to 8.5 × 3.5 cm, softly velvety, particularly below; petiole 2-4 mm long; stipules hairy. Flowers in axillary and terminal heads, creamy-white. Fruit almost round, fleshy, c. 7 mm in diameter, crowned with the remains of the calyx, forming a conspicuous, whitish hairy ring. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | luteola: yellowish |
| Habitat: | In hot and dry river valleys and "jesse" bush. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Caprivi-Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 5 October 2015 |
| Literature: |
Bridson, D.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2003). Rubiaceae, Part 3 Flora Zambesiaca 5(3) Pages 606 - 608. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 1008. (Includes a picture). Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Page 611. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 274. 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 74. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 99. 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 224. |
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