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| Date: | 9 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 170 |
| Determiner(s): | C Mannheimer |
| Confirmer(s): | |
| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: South of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D2 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Herb; Notes: Annual herb, up to 75 cm when in flower. Stems slender, erect, unbranched, terete but slightly ribbed, green, glabrous. Leaves clustered, simple, sessile; lamina linear, apex acute, base cuneate, margin entire, tends to be revolute, up to 60 x 2 mm, dull green, glabrous. Flowers in terminal racemes, densely arranged, especially terminally, showy, 2 cm in diameter. Petals 5, free, obovate, pale pink with purple bases. Sepals 5, fused, green, ciliate along free upper margins, persistent. Stamens with filaments maroon, contorted; anthers large, ovoid, fused. Fruit a capsule, 2-lobed, ovoid, 6 mm long with style persistent. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.875000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |