Asclepias fimbriata
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Tsetsera plateau, Mozambique.
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Tsetsera plateau, Mozambique.
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Tsetsera plateau, Mozambique.
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| Synonyms: |
Trachycalymma fimbriatum (Weim.) Bullock |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect perennial with annual stems, up to 50 cm tall, growing from a vertical tuber. Stem with milky sap, simple or branched near the base, densely pubescent with white spreading hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate, up to 5 × 3 cm, with prominent veins and white spreading hairs on both surfaces; margin entire, softly pubescent. Flowers in extra-axillary, 4-9-flowered, nodding umbels. Corolla purple, densely pubescent towards the apex outside, papillate on the inside. Corona lobes pouched with a rounded tip, appearing subspherical, white with a purple tip, without a tooth in the cavity; upper margins densely fimbriate. Fruit a single follicle, more or less narrowly ovoid, up to c. 8 × 1.5 cm, erect on a contorted pedicel, weakly longitudinally ridged, densely pubescent. |
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| Notes: | Probably Near Endemic. It may also occur on Mt Mulanje in Malawi. |
| Derivation of specific name: | fimbriata: fimbriate; with a fringed margin, referring to the margin of the corona lobes. |
| Habitat: | In open montane grassland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | So far only known from the mountains on the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and from Mt Gorongosa in Mozambique. |
| FZ divisions: | MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Friday 21 November 2008 |
| Literature: |
Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 179. As Trachycalymma fimbriatum Goyder, D.J. (2001). A revision of the tropical African genus Trachycalymma (K. Schum.) Bullock Kew Bulletin 56 Pages 137 - 138. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 269. Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 133. as Trachycalymma fimbriatum 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 22. as Trachycalymma fimbriatum Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 88. |
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