Hyphaene coriacea
General description:
Stem to 5 m tall and to 25 cm in diameter, solitary or clustered, with decumbent growth form; leaves 8-15; fruits extremely polymorphic in shape and size, to 6 cm long and 4 cm wide, pale green when immature, ripening dark brown.
Distribution:
This species is distributed in Kenya and Tanzania, extending to Somalia and southwards to Mozambique and South Africa; also distributed in Madagascar (Dransfield, 2010); from sea level to 250 m.
Habitat:
Hyphaene coriacea grows in coastal lowland regions, especially sand dunes, and rarely extends to inland areas; it is distributed from see level to 300 m.