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Tricalysia jasminiflora
jasminiflora
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from entrance gate to Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from entrance gate to Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road from entrance gate to Chitengo, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique
Photo: Bart Wursten
Chitengo Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Chitengo Camp, Gorongosa National Park.
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| Synonyms: |
Neorosea jasminiflora (Klotzsch) N. Hallé var. jasminiflora |
| Common names: | Single-flowered jackal-coffee (English) Small-leaved tricalysia (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Deciduous shrub or small tree. Leaves opposite, elliptic, leaves at the start of the season often much smaller than the later leaves, thinly leathery, usually short-hairy on the undersurface; hairtuft domatia present. Flowers axillary, often solitary but sometimes in up to 5-flowered clusters, appearing with or before the new leaves, creamy-white, corolla tube bearded. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 10 mm in diameter, crowned with the remains of the calyx, red when ripe. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | jasminiflora: with jasmine-like flowers |
| Habitat: | In riverine thickets, lowland evergreen forest, mixed deciduous woodland and on alluvial soils on floodplains. |
| Altitude range: | Up to 560 m |
| Flowering time: | May - Dec |
| Worldwide distribution: | Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe |
| Malawi distribution: | S |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 4 October 2015 |
| Literature: |
Bridson, D.M. & Verdcourt, B. (2003). Rubiaceae, Part 3 Flora Zambesiaca 5(3) Pages 502 - 505. (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 979. (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 276. As Neorosea jasminiflora jasminiflora 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. Robbrecht, E. (1987). The African genus Tricalysia A. Rich. (Rubiaceae) 4. Revision of the species of sectio Tricalysia ans sectio Rosea. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique national de Belgique 57(1/2) Pages 197 - 201. (Includes a picture). |
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