Description
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A twining liane or scandent shrub.Young branches, leaf-rhachis, and undersides of leaves with brownish stellate hairs, turning glabrescent with age. Leaves 3-foliolate, 3-veined from the base; petiolules swollen. Flowers in sweetly scented, terminal panicles, white, with the calyx densely covered in stellate and glandular hairs. Fruits obovoid, brown-red when ripe, covered in stellate hairs. Seeds with an orange aril.
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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). Agelaea pentagyna (Lam.) Baill. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125530
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- Mark Hyde
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Agelaea pentagyna (Lam.) Baill. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125530
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Agelaea pentagyna: Brief Summary
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Agelaea pentagyna is a species of flowering plant in the family Connaraceae. It is found in Africa.
The larvae of the moth Paraccra mimesa feed on the fruits of A. pentagyna.
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