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Internal ID UUID6440086ce5bae122137453
Scientific name Allophylus decipiens
Authority Radlk.
First published in Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3(5): 313 (1895)

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Allophylus decipiens, also known as the bastard taaibos, is a small evergreen tree found in coastal forests, thickets, and wooded areas in South Africa and Mozambique. It can reach up to 4 meters in height and has a pale grey bark and trifoliolate leaves. The tree produces fragrant white flowers in clusters of three and its fruit is bright red and about 6mm in diameter. The wood of this tree is white, close-grained, and hard. There are 219 species in the Allophylus genus.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Rhus spicata Thunb. Fl. Cap. 2: 217 (1818)
Rhus knysniaca Schinz Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 55: 238 (1910)
Schmidelia decipiens Arn. J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 152 (1840)
Schmidelia undulata Arn. J. Bot. (Hooker) 3: 152 (1840)
Allophylus spicatus (Thunb.) Fourc. Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 21: 100. 1932
Schmidelia decipens Sond.

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Afrikaans valstaaibos

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  • Africa
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Mozambique
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000526644
Tropicos 28600797
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:781744-1
The Plant List kew-2629314
Open Tree Of Life 924724
NCBI Taxonomy 992639
IUCN Red List 141557103
IPNI 781744-1
iNaturalist 507335
GBIF 5577695
EOL 5626426
Wikipedia Allophylus_decipiens

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Canopy plant composition and structure of Cape subtropical dune thicket are predicted by the levels of fire exposure Strydom T, Kraaij T, Grobler BA, Cowling RM PeerJ 08-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9651048
doi:10.7717/peerj.14310
PMID:36389405
Fire severity effects on resprouting of subtropical dune thicket of the Cape Floristic Region Strydom T, Kraaij T, Difford M, Cowling RM PeerJ 10-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7293192
doi:10.7717/peerj.9240
PMID:32566395

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