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Derivation of specific name

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senensis: from Sena on the Zambezi River in Mozambique
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Premna senensis Klotzsch Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148860
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Mark Hyde
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Petra Ballings
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Description

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Scrambling shrub or small bushy, soft-wooded tree with drooping branches. Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, unpleasantly aromatic when crushed, broadly ovate to oblong, usually 6-9 cm long, pale green, leathery, velvety on both surfaces, margin coarsely and bluntly toothed in the apical parts. Flowers in small terminal heads; corolla c. 4 mm in diameter, white with spreading lobes. Fruit ovoid, 3-6 mm in diameter, fleshy, glandular with the persistent calyx ribbed.
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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). Premna senensis Klotzsch Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148860
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Botswana, Burundi, Caprivi - Namibia, DRC, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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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). Premna senensis Klotzsch Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148860
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
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Flora of Zimbabwe