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Faurea racemosa Farmar

Species

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Characteristics

Leaves dark glossy-green, especially on upper surface, narrowly elliptic to broadly lanceolate, up to 10(13) cm long, 3(3.5) cm broad, but mostly smaller, apex acute, ± cuneate at base, margins undulate; midrib red (except on old leaves), midrib prominent beneath; leaves entirely glabrous; petioles 0.5–1 cm long, with short grey appressed hairs when young, glabrescent.
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Inflorescence a dense raceme up to 11 cm long, terminal; peduncle shortly rusty-pubescent; pedicels patent, 2–4(6) mm long, less than 1 mm diameter, shortly rusty-pubescent; lower bracts on flowering raceme deltoid, upper bracts smaller and cupuliform, very shortly rusty pubescent.
Perianth reddish, white when open, 1.1–1.4 cm long, slender, puberulent.
Hypogynous scales triangular, attenuated to the apex, up to 2 mm long.
Tree up to 30 m in height, but not usually more than 15–20 m.
Young branches greyish.
Anthers 2(3) mm long.
Flower buds patent.
Young foliage red.
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Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 30.0
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Distribution

Faurea racemosa world distribution map, present in Mozambique and Malawi

Conservation status

Faurea racemosa threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:703641-1
WFO ID wfo-0000686020
COL ID 3DW53
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Synonyms

Faurea racemosa
WorldFloraDB 2024