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  • Over most of the park the mopane grows as a shrub or small tree, but in the Halali area to the south of the park, it becomes a tall, dense woodland interspersed with red bushwillow (Combretum apiculatum subsp. apiculatum), purple-pod terminalia (Terminalia prunioides) and leadwood (Combretum imberbe).

    Angolan Mopane woodlands 2008

  • The vegetation to the south of the Makgadikgadi Pans complex grades into mopane tree savanna dominated by Colophospermum mopane with varying proportions of Acacia nigrescens, Terminalia prunioides and Combretum imberbe.

    Zambezian halophytics 2008

  • Mopane often forms pure stands to the exclusion of other species, but is generally associated with several other prominent trees and shrubs, such as Kirkia acuminata, Dalbergia melanoxylon, Adansonia digitata, Combretum apiculatum, C. imberbe, Acacia nigrescens, Cissus cornifolia, and Commiphora spp.

    Zambezian and Mopane woodlands 2008

  • To the west of this, in an area surrounding the town of Mahalapye, the vegetation becomes a more open tree savanna of Acacia nigrescens, sometimes found along side Sclerocarya caffra, Peltophorum africanum, Acacia giraffe, and Combretum imberbe.

    Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands 2007

  • In the area south of the Makgadigkadi Pans, Colophospermum mopane begins to dominate the tree savanna with large trees of Acacia nigrescens, Terminalia prunioides, and Combretum imberbe present in varying proportions.

    Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands 2007

  • South of the town of Mahalapye, Combretum imberbe and Peltophorum africanum dominate the tree savanna with a dense shrub cover of Combretum hereroense, Dichrostachys cinerea, Acacia tortilis, and Grewia flava present under the canopy.

    Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands 2007

  • Le reste de mon corps est toujours aussi imberbe alors pas de probleme a l'horizon ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Tout c'qui parait virginal et qui est sensiblement bridé des yeux et imberbe ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • _Canción al nacimiento de la hija del Marqués de Alcañices_, written, as he thinks, 'en un tono impropio de un imberbe'.

    Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

  • Cancion al nacimiento de la hija del Marques de Alcanices, written, as he thinks, 'en un tono impropio de un imberbe'.

    Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921

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  • sin barba; todavia era un chico imberbe

    December 10, 2007