| Salacia elegans Welw. ex Oliv. |
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| Family : CELASTRACEAE |
| Information on the genus : Salacia |
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Status
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Salacia elegans Welw. ex Oliv. var. elegans |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Salacia floribunda Tul. (1857) |
| =Salacia semlikiensis var. subcordatifolia De Wild. |
| =Salacia zanzibarensis Vatke ex Loes. |
| =Salacia semlikiensis De Wild. (1923) |
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| Taxon infra-specific |
| Salacia elegans var. inurbana N. Hallé |
| Salacia elegans Welw. ex Oliv. var. elegans |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Glabrous shrub 1-6 m tall often with climbing branches or liane 8-40 m; main stems 5-15 cm ?, pale green, smooth, rather flattened but with ridges when young, becoming reddish purple, terete (climbing shoots sometimes angled), with white lenticels. |
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| Ecology : |
Evergreen forest; fringing forest; thick deciduous woodland; regrowth; isolated rocks; wooded rocky ridges; swampy forests; thickets; lake-shore thickets and on rocks. |
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Very variable, in leaf-size, degree of toothing of leaf margins, length of inflorescence peduncles (cf. Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Celastraceae: 36, 1994 and Hawthorne & Jongkind, o.c.: 694). |
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1-1650 m alt. |
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Comoro Isl. |
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under chg |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
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| Record n°175255 |
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