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Turraea zambesica [family MELIACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Turraea zambesica [family MELIACEAE]
Common names
Turraea nilotica sensu Brem. & Oberm. in Ann. Transv. Mus. 16: 420 (1935); O. B. Miller in Jl S. Afr. Bot. 18: 40 (1952).
Information
Closely related to T. nilotica (no. 1). In addition to the key characters, differing as fol­lows: Leaves mostly rhombic-elliptic, rapidly tapering from near the middle to each end. Sta-minal frill usually densely ciliate. Fig. 11:2.
Use
2. Turraea zambesica Sprague & Hutch, ex Styles & White in Bolm Soc. broteriana, ser. 2, 36: 71, fig. 1 (1962) & in F.Z. 2: 311 (1963); Sprague & Hutch, ex Hutch., Botanist in S. Afr. 481 (1946), English description only. Type: Zambia, Victoria Falls, Hutchinson & Gillett 3493 (K, holo.!; BM!; LISC!; SRGH!).
Range
Only known from the Zambezi Valley and its tributa­ries in the Caprivi Strip, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. In the Caprivi Strip and Botswana it is found in woodland and wooded grassland on the banks of the Zambezi and Chobe Rivers. Map 36.
Turraea zambesica [family MELIACEAE]
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