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Unresolved name

Flat Crowned Albizia

Albizia adianthifolia (Schumach.) W. Wight

Derivation of specific name

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adianthifolia: leaves like a Maidenhair Fern (Adiantum sp.)
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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). Albizia adianthifolia (Schumach.) W. Wight Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125570
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Description

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Large flat-crowned tree. Bark grey, usually rough with shallow squares, like scales; young branches densely covered in rusty-brown hairs. Stipules ovate, c. 5-12 × 3-8 mm. Leaves bipinnate with 5-8 pairs of pinnae; leaflets in 9-17 pairs per pinna, oblong to almost rectangular with the midrib diagonally across, rounded and lacking a "heel", dark green above, densely pubescent all over the surface beneath; rhachis and petiole hairy with a gland at the base. Flowers in semi-spherical heads, creamy-white; staminal tube greenish (rarely pink or red), exserted up to 2.5 cm beyond the corolla. Pod dehiscent, pale brown, oblong, not glossy, densely and persistently pubescent. The pods take more than 9 months to mature.
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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). Albizia adianthifolia (Schumach.) W. Wight Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125570
author
Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Insects whose larvae eat this plant species

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Charaxes cithaeron cithaeron (Blue-spotted charaxes)
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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). Albizia adianthifolia (Schumach.) W. Wight Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125570
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Widespread in tropical Africa, as far south as KwaZulu- Natal.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Albizia adianthifolia (Schumach.) W. Wight Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125570
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
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Flora of Zimbabwe