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| Date: | 9 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 183 |
| Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
| Confirmer(s): | |
| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Grassy malapa near loma. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D1 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Annual herb, up to 0.60 m when in flower. Stems tend to prostrate but apically always erect, green, ? terete with dense white adpressed indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple (occasionally clustered); lamina ovate to obovate, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire, ? 40 x 10 mm, dull grey-green with dense white adpressed indumentum on both surfaces but especially abaxially, midrib abaxially prominent; petiole stout, rigid, up to 1 cm long, very densely pubescent. Flowers minute, up to 2 mm in diameter, in axillary 2-forked spikes tightly coiled but unfurling with maturity, subtended by persistent, foliaceous bracts. Petals 5, fused, creamy white. Sepals 5, free, minute, densely pubescent, persistent. Fruit: achene, globose, ? 1.5 mm in diameter, densely pubescent. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.625000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |