Distribution
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The species is found to occur in Southern Africa, on the Lebombo Mountains and northern areas in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Swaziland. The range also extends to Zimbabwe and Mozambique
Derivation of specific name
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saundersii: named after Sir Charles James Renault Saunders (1857-1935), botanist who collected the first specimen in Natal, S Africa at the end of the 19th Century.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pachypodium saundersii N.E. Br. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145170
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Description
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Low, succulent shrub, up to 2 m tall. Trunk short, swollen, sparsely branched; bark smooth, pale grey, wrinkled when dry; branches covered in long straight spines. Leaves spirally arranged up to 8 × 2.5 cm, narrowly obovate, thinly textured, hairless; apex mucronate; margin entire but wavy, often finely tuberculate. Flowers in condensed terminal heads, showy, c. 5 cm in diameter, white, often tinged pink or purple on the outside of the corolla. Fruit in pairs of horn-like follicles, up to 15 cm long. Seeds c. 7 mm long with an apical tuft of pale golden hairs up to 5 cm long.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pachypodium saundersii N.E. Br. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145170
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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S Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Northern province, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, S Africa.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pachypodium saundersii N.E. Br. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145170
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Pachypodium saundersii: Brief Summary
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Pachypodium saundersii, the kudu lily, is a succulent plant of the family Apocynaceae. It was named in honour of Sir Charles James Renault Saunders (1857–1931), the Natal Province civil servant and casual plant collector.
It is found naturally in Southern Africa, on the Lebombo Mountains and other areas in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Eswatini (Swaziland).
It is usually a small, shrubby bush, but can grow up to 1.5m tall. The plant is covered in paired, sharp thorns, and dark green shiny leaves, and it flowers annually producing masses of white flowers that have a pinkish/purplish tinge to them.
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