Psydrax mutimushii Bridson
subsp. mutimushii

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Bark
Riverine forest margin with miombo woodland
Zambezi Rapids, c. 5 km N of Kalene Hill, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Stipule
Riverine forest margin with miombo woodland
Zambezi Rapids, c. 5 km N of Kalene Hill, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

Fruits
Riverine forest margin with miombo woodland
Zambezi Rapids, c. 5 km N of Kalene Hill, Ikelenge District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Description:	Shrub or tree 2.5–9 m tall, glabrous; young branches terete or sometimes square in section; bark dark greyish-brown. Leaf blades 4–12 × 2–6 cm, elliptic or more often broadly elliptic, sometimes ovate, acuminate at apex, acute and sometimes attenuate at base, coriaceous, distinctly shiny on upper surface, moderately shiny beneath, somewhat discolorous (when dry); midrib somewhat prominent on both surfaces, drying pale; lateral nerves 5(6) in main pairs, apparent but not conspicuous; tertiary nerves obscure; domatia absent, or present as glabrous pits; petioles 4–8 mm long; stipules 5–7 mm long, triangular, somewhat keeled. Flowers 4–5-merous, borne in shortly pedunculate 20–60-flowered subumbellate cymes; peduncle 2–7 mm long; pedicels 3–8 mm long, sparsely pubescent to pubescent; bracts and bracteoles inconspicuous. Calyx tube 1.25 mm long, glabrous. Corolla white; tube 3–3.5 mm long, with a ring of deflexed hairs at the throat; lobes 3–3.25 × 1.25–1.5 mm long, oblong, acute and thickened at the apex. Immature fruit 8 × 5.5 mm; pedicels accrescent, up to 10 mm long. Another subspecies, subsp. wagemansii Bridson, occurs in Kinshasa Province of DRC and has shorter stipules and smaller fruit than the typical subspecies.
Type location:	Zambia, Mwinilunga
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Derivation of specific name:	mutimushii: named after J.M. Mutimushi who collected the type specimen..
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Angola and Zambia
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Growth form(s):	Shrub over 2 m.
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Literature:	Bridson, D.M. (1998). Rubiaceae, Part 2 Flora Zambesiaca 5(2) Pages 357 - 358. Verdcourt, B. (2000). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(6) Pages 137 - 138.

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