Species Heteromorpha arborescens
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Etymology of Heteromorpha:
Gk. hetero- = different; morpha = shape; referring to the variability in appearance between species from area to area (Palmer).
Etymology of arborescens:
from the Latin arborēscō (“become a tree”).
Scientific name:
Heteromorpha arborescens (Spreng.) Cham. & Schltdl.
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Synonym status:
Shrub or small tree, 2--9 m, with smooth reddish bark peeling in waxy flakes. Leaves palmately or pinnately 1--3(--9) -foliolate, leaflets elliptic-lanceolate, crenulate. Flowers in compound umbels, greenish-white, foetid. Fruits elliptic, mericarps heteromorphic, ribbed and 2- or 3-winged, occ. pilose. Dec.--Jan. Forest margins and rocky woodland, NW, SW, KM, LB, SE (Tulbagh and Bredasdorp to S Arabia).
Observations of Taxon
Heteromorpha arborescens
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Heteromorpha arborescens var. collina
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Heteromorpha arborescens var. abyssinica
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Heteromorpha arborescens
Name of observer:
Richard Boon (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
Heteromorpha arborescens
Locality:
Name of observer:
Janet M. Gibson (David)
Date observed:
Date observed unknown
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