Fernandoa abbreviata Bidgood
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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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Frequency:
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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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. |
Notes:
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For a discussion of this species, see F. magnifica. |
Derivation of specific name:
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abbreviata: shortened (probably referring to the inflorescence) |
Habitat:
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Dry woodland on rocky slopes and in dry montane forest |
Altitude range: |
700 - 1370 m |
Flowering time: | Aug - Oct |
Worldwide distribution:
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Central Tanzania (Iringa, Mpwapwa and (?) Morogoro
Districts) and southern Malawi (Mulanje District). |
Malawi distribution:
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Growth form(s):
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Tree.
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Endemic status:
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Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Literature:
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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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Other sources of information about Fernandoa abbreviata:
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Flora of Zimbabwe:
cultivated Fernandoa abbreviataExternal websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg):
Fernandoa abbreviataAfrican Plant Database:
Fernandoa abbreviataBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library):
Fernandoa abbreviataEOL (Encyclopedia of Life):
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Fernandoa abbreviataIPNI (International Plant Names Index):
Fernandoa abbreviataJSTOR Plant Science:
Fernandoa abbreviataMansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops:
Fernandoa abbreviataPlants of the World Online:
Fernandoa abbreviataTropicos:
Fernandoa abbreviataWikipedia:
Fernandoa abbreviata
Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-23
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2023).
Flora of Malawi: Species information: Fernandoa abbreviata. https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=165890, retrieved 6 June 2023
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