Asystasia retrocarpa
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Photo: Ton Rulkens
Close to Moamba, Moamba district, Maputo province
Photo: Ton Rulkens
Close to Moamba, Moamba district, Maputo province
Photo: Ton Rulkens
Close to Moamba, Moamba district, Maputo province
Photo: Ton Rulkens
Road between Chissano and Chibuto, close to Chissano, Gaza province,
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much branched annual or perennial herb; stems to 60 cm long. Leaves linear-lanceolate to ovate, hairless to sparsely hairy; petiole indistinct. Racemes axillary and terminal with relatively few (2-4) flowers. Peduncles 1-4 cm long; bracts and bracteoles linear-subulate, hairless. Pedicels 3-10 mm long, densely pubescent, sharply reflexed in the fruiting stage. Calyx lobes subequal, linear-subulate. Corolla 15-16 mm long, more or less 2-lipped, white with mauve markings on the lower lip. Capsule 12-20 × 3-4 mm, pendulous, hairless. |
| Type location: |
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | retrocarpa: presumably referring to the pedicel and capsule being reflexed against the inflorescence axis. |
| Habitat: | Flora Zambesiaca reports that it grows in mopane woodland; however, this record occurred in basalt soils. Ton Rulkens found it growing in "dark basalt derived soil east of the Lebombo range" and Warren McCleland reported it growing on "basalt flats". |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Botswana and northern and eastern South Africa |
| FZ divisions: | GI,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Tuesday 18 April 2017 |
| Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 127 - 129. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Asystasia retrocarpaAfrican Plant Database: Asystasia retrocarpa
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Asystasia retrocarpa
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Asystasia retrocarpa
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Asystasia retrocarpa
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