• Source: Balanites maughamii

Balanites maughamii (manduro, torchwood, Afrikaans: Groendoring, Zulu: Ugobandlovu) is a species of tree native to southern and eastern Africa. It ranges from Kenya through Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, the Caprivi Strip of Namibia, Eswatini, and the Northern Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It is deciduous or semi-deciduous, growing to 20 (–25) meters tall, with a rounded and spreading crown. It has a fluted trunk up to 1.3 m in diameter. It rarely grows as a low shrub 1.5 to 2 m tall.
It is a protected tree in South Africa.
Groendoring, a community outside Asab in Southern Namibia is named after this tree.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Balanites maughamii
• Balanites
• List of Zygophyllales of South Africa
• Sand forest
• List of Southern African indigenous trees and woody lianes
• Southern African Sand Forest