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Dichapetalum rhodesicum Sprague & Hutchinson

Derivation of specific name

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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
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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
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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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.
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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
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Northern Namibia, 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
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe