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Tecoma capensis (Thunb.) Lindl.
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Striphnopteryx edulis (Edible monkey)
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Multi-stemmed, often scrambling shrub, rarely a small tree. Branches usually densely covered with lenticels. Leaves opposite, imparipinnate with 3-6 pairs of leaflets and a terminal leaflet. Petiole and rhachis slightly winged. Leaflets elliptic to ovate, mostly up to 7.5 × 3.5 cm, mostly hairless on both surfaces except for hairtuft domatia below, asymmetrically rounded at the base; margin toothed or scalloped. Flowers bright orange to red, in showy many-flowered terminal heads. Fruit flattened, up to 19 × 1.5 cm, pointed at both ends, dehiscent. Seeds with a transparent papery wing.
Rhodogastria amasis (Tri-coloured tiger)
capensis: of the Cape; nyassae: of the area around Lake Nyassa or Lake Malawi.
Fl.Per.: Sept.-Jan. (Occasionally earlier in May).
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"Notes: Plains, Cultivated, Native of Tropical America"
Mozambique, Swaziland and S Africa
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLDS) Stats
Public Records: 6
Specimens with Barcodes: 13
Species With Barcodes: 1
NE Angola, DRC (Haut-Katanga), Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia