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Diospyros chamaethamnus
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Photo: Leith Woodall
N'Kwazi Lodge, Rundu, Namibia.
Photo: Leith Woodall
N'Kwazi Lodge, Rundu, Namibia.
Photo: Warren McCleland
Ngonye Falls, Senanga District.
Photo: Warren McCleland
Ngonye Falls, Senanga District.
Photo: Warren McCleland
Ngonye Falls, Senanga District.
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| Status: | Native |
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Suffrutex growing from a rhizome, forming extensive colonies up to several meters wide. Stems mostly unbranched, usually up to 30 cm tall but up to 50 cm if protected from fires. Leaves usually more or less narrowly elliptic, discolorous, hairless and glossy green above, sparsely. finely rough hairy and greyish-green beneath. Flowers in subsessile, axillary 1-7-flowered clusters, unisexual., reddish. Fruit subglobose, c. 3.5 cm long, densely golden-brown hairy at least when young. |
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| Habitat: | In various types of woodland, wooded grassland and at the edges of vleis, always on Kalahari sand. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zambia, Botswana, Namibia and Angola. |
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| Content last updated: | Thursday 25 February 2016 |
| Literature: |
Curtis, B.A. & Mannheimer, C.A. (2005). Tree Atlas of Namibia National Botanic Research Institute, Windhoek Pages 518 - 519. (Includes a picture). Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 46. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 54. 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 206. White, F. (1983). Ebenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 277 - 279. (Includes a picture). |
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