Derivation of specific name
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英語
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由Flora of Zimbabwe提供
pungens; prickly, referring to the leaf tips
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- 版權
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- 書目引用
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Strychnos pungens Soler. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144430
- 作者
- Mark Hyde
- 作者
- Bart Wursten
- 作者
- Petra Ballings
Description
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英語
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由Flora of Zimbabwe提供
Small, deciduous to sometimes evergreen tree. Bark grey to brown, rough and flaking in to squares lower on older trunks, grey and smooth higher up and on younger trees; branches corky and with swollen nodes and conspicuous lenticels. Leaves opposite, 3-veined from (near) the base, narrowly elliptic, 3-8 cm long, rigid or leathery, hairless with a hard, spiny apical point; margin entire; petiole thick, up to 4 mm long. Inflorescences in tight, axillary clusters, c. 2 cm wide; flowers greenish-white, up to 9 mm long. Fruit up to 12 cm in diameter, with a hard, woody shell, bluish-green, yellow when ripe, edible but less tasty than of other species.
- 許可
- cc-by-nc
- 版權
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- 書目引用
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Strychnos pungens Soler. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144430
- 作者
- Mark Hyde
- 作者
- Bart Wursten
- 作者
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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英語
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由Flora of Zimbabwe提供
Tropical Africa to Botswana and Limpopo, North-West, Gauteng and Mpumalanga, South Africa.
- 許可
- cc-by-nc
- 版權
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- 書目引用
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Strychnos pungens Soler. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144430
- 作者
- Mark Hyde
- 作者
- Bart Wursten
- 作者
- Petra Ballings