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Date: | 13 Feb 1988 |
Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
Collector(s): | GL Maggs 272 |
Determiner(s): | S Kruger |
Confirmer(s): | |
Herbarium: | WIND |
Habitat: | |
Location: | Caprivi: 7 km along turn-off to Chinchimane from National Road. |
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Planted code: | Not planted |
Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
Quarter Degree Square: | 1724C3 |
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Altitude (metres): | 0 |
Notes: | Shrub; Notes: Shrub, up to 1 m high. Stems profusely branched from base; bark purplish-brown with cream-coloured longitudinal fissures, transverse ridges at nodes; young branchlets red-brown with dense, short, white pubescent indumentum. Leaves opposite (appearing clustered on compressed dwarf shoots), simple; petiole short, 1-2 mm long, adaxially grooved, stout, slightly curved, with dense white velutinous indumentum; lamina obovate to elliptic, apex acute to minutely apiculate, occasionally notched, base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire to sinuate, 2.5 - 6 x 1 - 2.5 cm, adaxially bright green, densely velutinous, abaxially dull pale green, densely velutinous, midrib prominent, soft and velvety to the touch. Flowers past. Fruit a bilobed follicle, borne perpendicular to main axis; each lobe cylindrical-cuneate, 18 cm long, 1.5 cm at base tapering to apex, soft and leathery, purplish-brown with white lenticular markings, constricted at junction of 2 mericarps, with fine yellowish flocculose indumentum. |
Latitude, Longitude: | -17.875000, 24.125000 |
Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |