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Northern Soap Berry

Deinbollia xanthocarpa (E. Mey.) Radlk.

Derivation of specific name

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xanthocarpa: with yellow fruit.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Deinbollia xanthocarpa (Klotzsch) Radlk. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=137400
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Description

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Scrambling shrub or small tree. Leaves paripinnate with 3-9 pairs of leaflets, rhachis often narrowly winged and extending into a small point, slightly beyond the ultimate pair of leaflets; leaflets oblong-elliptic, up to 8 × 3 cm long, hairless, apex rounded or notched; margins entire, often wavy. The bottom leaflets start so close to the base of the rhachis that they resemble large stipules. Flowers in terminal, large, branched, catkin-like racemes, white. Fruit spherical to ovoid, c. 1.4 cm in diameter, fleshy, yellow.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Deinbollia xanthocarpa (Klotzsch) Radlk. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=137400
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Insects whose larvae eat this plant species

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Euphaedra neophron neophron (Gold-banded forester)
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Deinbollia xanthocarpa (Klotzsch) Radlk. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=137400
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Deinbollia xanthocarpa (Klotzsch) Radlk. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=137400
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe