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Streptocarpus hirticapsa
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Plateau below Mt Pheza, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Plateau below Mt Pheza, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Plateau below Mt Pheza, Chimanimani Mts
Photo: Bart Wursten
Plateau below Mt Pheza, Chimanimani Mts
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| Frequency: | Local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb. All parts except flowers with long spreading hears. Leaves several in a loosely arranged tuft, linear-oblong to ovate, up to 10 × 4 cm; margin finely toothed or scalloped. Young leaves sessile, flowering leaf stalked with a pseudopetiole up to 35 mm long. Inflorescences 1 or 2 from the junction of the leaf base and the stalk, few-flowered. Flowers white with magenta-pink stripes and spots on the corolla lobes and in the throat. Capsule 8-15 mm long, densely covered in long spreading hairs, crowned by the persistent style. |
| Notes: | Although several leaves are normally present, one leaf is often much larger than the others, which makes this species often appear as a small single-leaved species at first glance in the field. |
| Derivation of specific name: | hirticapsa: with a hairy capsule. |
| Habitat: | On mountain sides in the shelter of overhanging rocks. |
| Altitude range: | 950 - 1800 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Chimanimani Mts, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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| Endemic status: | NrEnd |
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| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 11 September 2011 |
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Other sources of information about Streptocarpus hirticapsa:
African Plant Database: Streptocarpus hirticapsaBiodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Streptocarpus hirticapsa
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Streptocarpus hirticapsa
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Streptocarpus hirticapsa
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Streptocarpus hirticapsa
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Streptocarpus hirticapsa
JSTOR Plant Science: Streptocarpus hirticapsa
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Streptocarpus hirticapsa
Tropicos: Streptocarpus hirticapsa
West African Plants database: Streptocarpus hirticapsa
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