Derivation of specific name
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lycioides: resembling a Lycium (Solanaceae); sericea: with silky appressed hairs, sericeous
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Diospyros lycioides Desf.
subsp. sericea (Bernh.) De Winter Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144010
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Deciduous suffrutex, shrub or
small tree up to 6 m. Bark grey, smooth. Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, densely
sericeous-pubescent; secondary nerves but not the main veins prominently raised. Male flowers solitary, axillary; calyx up to 8 mm, deeply lobed almost to base; corolla up to 1 cm, campanulate, creamy-white, 5-lobed to just below middle. Female flowers similar to male. Fruit up to 2 × 1.5 cm, ovoid or spherical, red, apiculate. Fruiting calyx up to 1.5 cm, accrescent; lobes narrowly triangular, strongly reflexed.
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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). Diospyros lycioides Desf.
subsp. sericea (Bernh.) De Winter Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144010
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Common
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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). Diospyros lycioides Desf.
subsp. sericea (Bernh.) De Winter Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144010
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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DRC, Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and S Africa, as far south as the Eastern Cape
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Diospyros lycioides Desf.
subsp. sericea (Bernh.) De Winter Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144010
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
