Mundulea sericea

Mundulea sericea (Willd.) A.Chev.

Common names

Cork bush (English); mutototo (Bisa/Kunda); mtototo (Nyanja).

General description and distinguishing characteristics

Small tree or shrub, flowers blue or violet in dense inflorescences. Pods are linear, up to 10 cm long.

Range and habitat

Mixed alluvial thicket; Combretum-Terminalia-Burkea open woodland. In Mopane woodland on sand. Low interfluves in dissected terrain or on flat, poorly drained soils. Fairly common in alluvium area on sand and sometimes in mopane.