Pygmaeothamnus zeyheri (Sond.) Robyns
var. zeyheri

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On Dyffryn Farm, close to main road between Headlands and Rusape

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Synonyms:	Canthium oatesii Rolfe Fadogia zeyheri (Sond.) Hiern Pachystigma zeyheri Sond. Vangueria zeyheri (Sond.) Sond.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Suffrutex with stems up to 30 cm long, growing from a horizontal rhizome. Leaves mostly in whorls of 3-4, obovate to obovate-oblong or elliptic, 4-16 cm long, somewhat leathery, hairless (in this variety); margin entire; petiole 5-20 mm long. Stipules 4-5 mm long, triangular with a drawn out apex, hairless. Inflorescences in the lower leaf axils, up to 4 cm long, much-branched, few-many flowered, usually hairless but rarely with spreading hairs on the inflorescence axes and calyx tubes. Corolla red or greenish; tube 3-4 mm long; lobes 4-5 mm long, reflexed or sometimes erect. Fruit oblong, subglobose or pear-shaped, up to 3 × 2 cm, hairless.
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Derivation of specific name:	zeyheri: after Carl Zeyher (1799 - 1858), a German naturalist
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
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Literature:	Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 307 - 309. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 30. 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. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 92. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 99.

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