Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
rhodesicum: of Rhodesia, referring (in this case) to both Northern and Southern Rhodesia, now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Dichapetalum rhodesicum Sprague & Hutch. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=134010
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- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Description
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Small suffrutex shrub with shoots up to c. 60 cm high. Branches densely covered in golden-brown woolly hairs. Leaves alternate, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate-ovate, 5-12 cm long, discolorous, green with fine brownish pubescence above, densely covered in grey-green woolly hairs below; petiole, midrib and margin with golden-brown hairs. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters, yellowish, pubescent. Fruit ovoid, densely covered in golden-brown woolly hairs and shallowly 3-lobed when young.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Dichapetalum rhodesicum Sprague & Hutch. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=134010
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Northern Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Dichapetalum rhodesicum Sprague & Hutch. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=134010
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings