Xerophyta argentea
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Image details:
| Species id: | 115230 |
| Image id: | 7 |
| Image number: | 17715 |
| Photographer: | BT Wursten |
| Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen: | 0 |
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| Code 1 if image not to be displayed: | 0 |
| Image notes: | Woodly subshrub up to 40 cm high with tufts of linear dleaves growing from a solid fibrous base, blackened by fires; flowers mauve purple; glandular tuberculate on peduncle, ovary and outside corolla lobes. Many specimens seen but only one with flowers; generally common in the area |
Record details:
| Record id: | 59498 |
| Date: | 22 Apr 2014 |
| Recorder(s): | BT Wursten A Mapaura P Ballings JR Timberlake J Hadj-Hammou |
| Collector(s): | BT Wursten P Ballings PB2298 |
| Determiner(s): | BT Wursten |
| Confirmer(s): | JR Timberlake |
| Herbarium: | BR |
| Habitat: | In shallow soils on rocky quartzite sandstone slope |
| Location: | Higher slopes of Mt Nhamudimu, Chimanimani Mts |
| Location code(s): | 168 |
| Outing code: | 32 |
| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Mozambique |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1933C1 |
| Grid reference: | |
| FZ divisions: | MS |
| Altitude (metres): | 1950 |
| Notes: | Woodly subshrub up to 40 cm high with tufts of linear dleaves growing from a solid fibrous base, blackened by fires; flowers mauve purple; glandular tuberculate on peduncle, ovary and outside corolla lobes. Many specimens seen but only one with flowers; generally common in the area |
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| Location accuracy code: | 7 |