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Landolphia buchananii
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Cecil Kop Nature Reserve, Mutare
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Cecil Kop Nature Reserve, Mutare
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| Synonyms: |
Clitandra buchananii Hallier f. Landolphia rogersii Stapf Landolphia swynnertonii S. Moore Landolphia ugandensis Stapf |
| Common names: | Apricot vine (English) Rubber vine (English) |
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| Description: |
Climbing shrub or robust liane with numerous strong tendrils formed by old inflorescence branches. Older stems strongly and deeply fluted, appearing almost like a bundle of separate vines. Leaves elliptic-oblong to narrowly ovate, up to 14 cm long, dark green, usually not glossy and hairless above, midrib hardly channeled, lateral veins and net-veining somewhat depressed, midrib prominent below, net-veining visible with a lens, hairless or midrib pubescent. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, few-several-flowered. Flowers white, up to c. 2 cm in diameter with a tube 7.5 - 9 mm long, often pinkish or yellow inside, scented. Fruits spherical, up to 10 cm in diameter, green, edible. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | buchananii: after John Buchanan (1855 – 1896), Scottish horticulturist, missionary, farmer and plant collector in Malawi, who became Acting British Consul to Central Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchanan_(settler). |
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| Flowering time: | Nov - Jan |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
| Growth form(s): | Climber, liane. |
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| Insects associated with this species: | Nephele argentifera (Larval foodplant) |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 73. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 797. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 26. Under both Landolphia buchananii and L. ugandensis Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 24. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 268. Leeuwenberg, A.J.M. & Kupicha, F.K. et al. (1985). Apocynaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 409 - 410. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 19. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 43. |
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