Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
pubiflora: with hairy flowers.
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acalypha pubiflora Baill. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135130
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Much-branched shrub, 1-6 m tall. Branches reddish-brown with white lenticels. Leaves spirally arranged, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, up to 16 times; 6 cm, pale to bright green with yellow translucent gland-dots on the undersurface; margin toothed. Flowers in axillary spikes, unisexual on the same inflorescence. Female flowers below, held in large shallowly cup-shaped bracts; male flowers above, very small, whitish. Fruit c. 3 mm in diameter, 3-lobed, gland-dotted, held in the enlarged bracts.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acalypha pubiflora Baill. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135130
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Acalypha pubiflora Baill. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135130
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
