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Hexalobus monopetalus (Baboon's breakfast, Shakama plum)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > magnoliids > Order: Magnoliales > Family: Annonaceae

Hexalobus monopetalus (Baboon's breakfast, Shakama plum)  
Hexalobus monopetalus, Umvumvumvu Gorge, Zimbabwe. [photo Bart Wursten ©, Flora of Zimbabwe]  

Native to tropical Africa, from Senegal to the Sudan and Uganda, southwards to Namibia, Botswana and South Africa (Limpopo, Mpumalanga).

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