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<big>''[[Croton mubango]]'' Müll.Arg.</big>

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:Protologue: Journ. Bot. 2: 338 (1864).

:Family: Euphorbiaceae

== Vernacular names ==

== Origin and geographic distribution ==

The wood is hard and white.

Monoecious shrub to medium-sized tree up to 17 m tall; bole up to 30 cm in diameter; branches spreading, twigs drooping, densely covered with scaly and stellate hairs. Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules 4–5-partite, segments linear, 4–12 mm long, persistent; petiole 2–10 cm long; blade elliptical to ovate, 4–16.5 cm × 2–9 cm, base cordate to rounded, with 2 large basal glands, apex acuminate, thinly stellate hairy above, scaly and grey below. Inflorescence a slender, terminal raceme 7.5–20 cm long, covered with scales, mostly with male flowers in upper part and 1–4 female flowers at base. Flowers unisexual, 5-merous, regular, white; pedicel (2–)5–12 mm long; sepals triangular, 4–5 mm long; petals ovate-elliptical, 3.5–5 mm long, hairy on both sides; male flowers with 22–37 stamens, free; female flowers with superior, depressed-globose ovary, densely scaly hairy, 3-celled, styles 3, 3–4 times 2-fid, spreading. Fruit a rounded capsule 18–23 mm in diameter, covered with scales, 3-seeded. Seeds ellipsoid, 13–15 mm × 9–12 mm, brownish. Seedling with epigeal germination.

''Croton mubango'' flowers from July to September.

''Croton'' comprises about 1200 species and occurs throughout the warmer regions of the world. It is best represented in the Americas; about 65 species occur in continental Africa and about 125 in Madagascar.

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