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Elephantorrhiza elephantina
Common names: eland's bean, eland's wattle, elephant's root (Eng.); baswortel, elandsboontjie, leerbossie, looiersboontjie, olifantswortel (Afr.); mupangara (Shona)
Family: Fabaceae
... Seeds are ellipsoid and dark brown. Of all species of Elephantorrhiza, E. elephantina is the most widespread and ... distinguished. The most frequent pollinator of all Elephantorrhiza species is the African honeybee, Apis ... sinuata, in the insect family Scarabaeidae. Flowers of Elephantorrhiza species provide only pollen as reward. Anther ...
12 / 07 / 2010 | Alicia Grobler | Pretoria NBG
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Elephantorrhiza burkei
Common names: elephant-root, sumach bean (Eng.); basboontjie, basbos (Afr.) lesitsane (Northern Sotho); mositsane, mosidi, mosidi-godimo, mosidi-mogolo (Tswana), ts
Family: Fabaceae
... Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden September 2017 Elephantorrhiza burkei is a deciduous shrub or tree, with a ... woody rims are left by the peeling centre of the pod. Elephantorrhiza burkei occurs quite frequently from Zambia in ... ) is a regular visitor to the flowers of species of Elephantorrhiza and thus plays a major role in the ...
18 / 09 / 2017 | Benjamin Festus | Kirstenbosch NBG
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