Chaetocarpus africanus Pax

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Ferme Randu, southwest Katanga Province, DRC

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Description:	Straggling or scandent shrub or small tree up to 4.5 m. Leaves: lamina 2-15 × 1.5-4 cm, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate and mucronate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, sericeous above and beneath, becoming glabrous later. Male flowers: sepals 4, creamy-white; stamens 8-10. Female flowers resembling the male but sepals are slightly larger. Fruit 7-10 × 6-7 mm, tuberculate and bearing bristles, reddish when fresh, brown when dry. Seeds 4, shiny, black; caruncle bright red or orange.
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Derivation of specific name:	Chaeto – carpus: bristle fruit africanus: African
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Worldwide distribution:	Zambia, Angola, D. R. Congo; Gabon
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Literature:	Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 134 - 136. (Includes a picture).

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