Fernandoa abbreviata
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Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Mark Hyde
Outside Dandaro by the Borrowdale Road
Photo: Mark Hyde
Outside Dandaro by the Borrowdale Road
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Tree to 18 m. Bark reddish-brown, vertically striate. Leaves with 3-5 pairs of leaflets and a terminal leaflet; leaflets oblong to elliptic; margin sinuate to serrate. Flowers borne singly or in few-flowered racemes, spectacular, bright orange-red with a yellow centre. Calyx 2-3-lobed. Corolla bell-shaped, up to 10 cm in diameter, shallowly lobed with 4 large stamens and a shorter staminode; anther thecae 5-8 mm long. Fruit a long slender capsule, to 60 cm long, ± circular in cross-section. |
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| Notes: | For a discussion of this species, see F. magnifica. |
| Derivation of specific name: | abbreviata: shortened (probably referring to the inflorescence) |
| Habitat: | Dry woodland on rocky slopes and in dry montane forest |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 700 - 1370 m |
| Flowering time: | Jun - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | Central Tanzania (Iringa, Mpwapwa and (?) Morogoro Districts) and southern Malawi (Mulanje District). |
| FZ divisions: | S |
| Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Bidgood, S (1994). Synopsis of the Continental African Species of Fernandoa (Bignoniaceae) Kew Bulletin 49(3) Pages 386 - 388. (Includes a picture). |
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