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Strelitzia caudata (Mountain Strelitzia)

Wikipedia Abstract

Strelitzia caudata, commonly known as the mountain strelitzia or wild banana, is a species of banana-like Strelitzia from Africa from the Chimanimani Mountains of Zimbabwe south to Mozambique, the Northern Provinces of South Africa and Swaziland. It was first described by Robert Allen Dyer in 1946. It is one of three large banana-like Strelitzia species, all of which are native to southern Africa, the other two being S. alba and S. nicolai.
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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low

Consumers

Shelter for 
Afronycteris nanus nanus (banana pipistrelle)[2]

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Citations

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1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
2Pipistrellus nanus, Cori L. Lausen and Robert M. R. Barclay, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 784, pp. 1-7 (2005)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0