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Derivation of specific name

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brevispinosum: with short spines.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Rhigozum brevispinosum Kuntze Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=152350
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Description

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Shrub or multi-stemmed small tree up to c. 3 m tall. Branches rigid, squarish and twisted, armed with short spines. Leaves in opposite clusters on small woolly spurs, sub-sessile, simple or rarely 3-foliolate, narrowly oblanceolate, 2-5 cm long, grey-green, mostly hairless when mature; apex rounded to notched; margin entire. Flowers appearing with the leaves, showy, golden yellow, 2-4 cm in diameter, petals wrinkled along the edges, solitary or in few-flowered clusters among the leaves. Fruit a flattened slender capsule, c. 7 × 1.2 cm, light green to pale brown with a sharply pointed tip, dehiscent.
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copyright
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Rhigozum brevispinosum Kuntze Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=152350
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Northern Cape and Limpopo, South Africa.
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cc-by-nc
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Rhigozum brevispinosum Kuntze Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=152350
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe