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Hybrid Terminalia

Terminalia trichopoda Diels

Description

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Small tree. Bark grey, roughish and fissured; branchlets flaking, revealing paler underbark. Leaves crowded near the ends of branches, more or less narrowly obovate, 10-15 cm long, leathery, hairless above, usually covered with coarse brownish hairs below; margin entire; petiole short and thick. Flowers in dense axillary spikes, white, cream or pale yellow, strongly but unpleasantly scented. Fruits in heavy pendent clusters, 2-winged, up to 7.5 × 4.5 cm, dull pink when ripe, drying pale brown.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Terminalia trichopoda Diels Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=142250
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Botswana, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, 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). Terminalia trichopoda Diels Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=142250
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe