Acridocarpus zanzibaricus

Family: Malpighiaceae

Country of Origin: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam region

Description: Plants ca. 2m tall, shrub-like at base; shoots eventually elongating and twining around other vegetation and around themselves; sepals green, ventral sepals each with 2 glands; petals yellow, dorsal petals 2; stamens yellow; pistil green; fruit, turning brown when dry.

USDA Zone: 11-12

Accession #: 200800044

Accession Date: 2008-04-28 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1106

Quantity: 3

Source: Charles Davis, Wenheng Zhang - Harvard University

Provenance:

• Plants of Tanzania: Dar es Sallaam Region, Dar es Salaam: Kawe, N side of the city of Dar es Sallaam on Old Bagamoyo Road. 6d 44'8"S,39d 14'24"E, 15m.
  
  Island-like thickets, scattered shrubs and small trees on sand. In open and edge of thickets.
  
  Plants ca. 2m tall, shrub-like at base; shoots eventually elongating and twining around other vegetation and around themselves; sepals green, ventral sepals each with 2 glands; petals yellow, dorsal petals 2; stamens yellow; pistil green; fruit, turning brown when dry.
  
  W.H. Zhang, F.M. Mbago & D.E. Boufford, Harvard University Herbaria #154
  10 February 2008
  

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: eurosid I

Order: Malpighiales

Family: Malpighiaceae