Tricliceras lobatum (Urb.) R. Fern.
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Escarpment descent Makuti-Chirindu rd, c. 800m before turnoff to Mana Pools
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Escarpment descent Makuti-Chirindu rd, c. 800m before turnoff to Mana Pools
Photo: Bart Wursten
Escarpment descent Makuti-Chirindu rd, c. 800m before turnoff to Mana Pools
Photo: Bart Wursten
Escarpment descent Makuti-Chirindu rd, c. 800m before turnoff to Mana Pools
Photo: Bart Wursten
Escarpment descent Makuti-Chirindu rd, c. 800m before turnoff to Mana Pools
Photo: Bart Wursten
By the lodges, Lake Kyle Recreational Park
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Along road to Buye Rotanda, Sussundenga District
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Mutirikwi CL, Murray MacDougall Drive
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Chipote, Mahenye, Ndowoyo CL.
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Ngomakurira, Chinhamora CL.
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Zambezi National Park.
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Mutoya Lodge, Kalimbeza
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Mutoya Lodge, Kalimbeza
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Mutoya Lodge, Kalimbeza
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Mutoya Lodge, Kalimbeza
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Mutoya Lodge, Kalimbeza
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By Masvingo - Zvishavane road before Zvishavane
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Synonyms:
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Wormskioldia lobata Urb.
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Erect annual herb. Stems up to 1 m long, simple or branched, sparsely set with short yellowish-brown, swollen-based bristles. Leaves heteromorphic. Lower leaves up to 5 cm long, elliptic, un lobed and shortly petiolate; other leaves sessile, lanceolate, up to 15 cm long, with 1-4 blunt, shallow lobes in the lower half of the lamina lobed in the lower half; lobes often with a sissile gland at the top. Flowers 1-4 per raceme on slender peduncles up to 9 cm long, lengthening up to 20 cm in fruit. Petals 15-20 mm long, pale yellow to orange, rarely white. Capsule 4-7 cm long, narrowly linear, beaked, hairless, held at right angles or deflexed to the peduncle. |
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Derivation of specific name:
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lobatum: lobed |
Habitat:
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On rocky outcrops, in mopane woodland, secondary vegetation or as a weed in old fields, often in sandy soils. |
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Up to 1500 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Widespread in tropical Africa. |
Mozambique distribution:
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N,MS |
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Spot characters:
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Content last updated: |
Saturday 26 May 2012 |
Literature:
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Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 84 - 85. (Includes a picture).
Fernandes, R. (1978). Turneraceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 363 - 364.
Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 318. (Includes a picture).
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 81.
Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 109.
Shone, D.K. & Drummond, R.B. (1965). Poisonous Plants of Rhodesia Ministry of Agriculture, Rhodesia Page 59. as Wormskioldia lobata
Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 227.
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-22
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2022).
Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Tricliceras lobatum. https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=140880, retrieved 2 July 2022
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