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Acalypha dikuluwensis

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Name

Identification
Acalypha dikuluwensis P.A.Duvign. & Dewit [family EUPHORBIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for Acalypha dikuluwensis P.A. Duvign. & Dewit [family EUPHORBIACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 4, (1996) Author: A. Radcliffe-Smith
Names
Acalypha dikuluwensis P.A. Duvign. & Dewit [family EUPHORBIACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 96, 2: 1 (1963). Type from Zaire (Shaba Province).
Information
Very like A. clutioides, but distinguished from it in the following features; stems not more than 25 cm high, more densely pilose but less densely leafy than in A. clutioides; lower leaves more broadly ovate to almost suborbicular; leaves sometimes irregularly, shallowly and remotely denticulate on the margins, and pilose beneath; female flowers sometimes geminate in the leaf axils; female bracts palmatifid; styles connate at the base and the ovary globose.
Habitat
Watershed grassland, on termite mounds in open at edge of boggy dambos.
Distribution
Zambia W southwest of Jobeka (Dobeka) Bridge, fl. 13.x.1937, Milne-Redhead 2741 (K).
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Notes
This species may even be considered to be conspecific with A. clutioides, in which case its name has priority by 10 years.In Zaire it is a polycuprophyte, only being found on a substrate where the copper content of the soil is above 2,500 ppm., and it can tolerate concentrations of up to 50,000 ppm.

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