Description
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Shrub or small to large tree. Bark smooth when young, becoming roughish and cracked, often flaking in older specimens; branchlets with lenticels, hairless; rubbery milky latex present. Leaves in whorls of 3, rarely 4, elliptic to oblanceolate, up to 13 × 5 cm, leathery, yellowish-green above, paler below, hairless, lateral veins parallel and looping to form a sub-marginal vein; margin entire,wavy; petiole short, winged by the decurrent leaf base. Flowers in axillary clusters on old and new wood, white, fading to creamy-yellow, strongly fragrant. Fruit in paired round mericarps, up to 2 cm in diameter, wrinkled, yellow-orange to red when ripe.
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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). Pleiocarpa pycnantha (K. Schum.) Stapf Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145010
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Tropical Africa
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pleiocarpa pycnantha (K. Schum.) Stapf Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=145010
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Pleiocarpa pycnantha: Brief Summary
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Pleiocarpa pycnantha is a plant in the family Apocynaceae.
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