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Vitex epidictyodes Mildbr. ex W. Piep. Vitex golungensis Baker Vitex madiensis Oliv. var. epidictyodes (W. Piep.) Verdc. Vitex madiensis Oliv. var. milanjiensis (Britten) W. Piep. Vitex milanjiensis Britten Vitex seineri Gürke ex W. Piep. Vitex sp. no. 1 sensu Drummond (1975) |
Common names: | Rough fingerleaf (English) |
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Sometimes a shrub or small tree, often a suffrutex, less than 50 cm. Growing tips covered in long tawny hairs. Leaves digitately compound with 5 leaflets. Leaflets obovate, the lower leaflets markedly smaller, dark green above, very rough to the tough; paler below with softer hairs; apex rounded to square, often with a short and abrupt point. Flowers in axillary heads, white with a pale blue to deep mauve lip; calyx lobes densely covered in tawny hairs. Fruit ellipsoid-oblong, fleshy, pendulous on long stalks, black, often spotted white, cupped in the persistent calyx. |
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Flowering time: | Sep - Feb |
Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Growth form(s): | Shrub under 2 m. |
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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 192. Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 858. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 983. 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 79. Fernandes, R. (2005). Lamiaceae (subfamilies: Viticoideae and Ajugoideae) Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 83 - 85. 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 57. |
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