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Buchanan's Dwaba Berry

Monanthotaxis buchananii (Engl.) Verdc.

Description

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Scrambling shrub, small tree or true liane. Bark smooth. Leaves narrowly oblong to oblanceolate or elliptic, 4.5-10 cm long, shiny yellowish-green and glabrous above, bluish-green and sparsely pubescent below, thinly textured, apex rounded, often notched; margin wavy. Flowers solitary or in 2-4-flowered clusters, axillary, lemon-yellow Fruit a cluster of up to 10 cylindric or ovoid carpels, up to 1 cm long, orange-red when ripe.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Monanthotaxis buchananii (Engl.) Verdc. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123820
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia
license
cc-by-nc
copyright
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Monanthotaxis buchananii (Engl.) Verdc. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123820
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe