Heliotropium zeylanicum
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Mozambique-Zimbabwe Border
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Heliotropium subulatum (A.DC.) Vatke Tournefortia subulata Hochst. ex A. DC. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect or procumbent perennial herb, up to 80 cm, growing from a thick rootstock. Leaves subsessile, linear-lanceolate, up to c. 10 cm long with longish stiff hairs above and on the veins below, often with small orange glands on the undersurface; margin entire. Flowers in elongating inflorescences, eventually up to 25(-30) cm long, greenish or cream with long caudate-acuminate lobes. Fruits almost round, up to 2.5 mm in diameter, hairless, usually brown. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | zeylanicum: from Sri Lanka (Ceylon) |
| Habitat: | In sandy soils on riverbanks, edges of lakes and dry open woodland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa, Arabia, Pakistan and India. |
| FZ divisions: | T,MS,GI,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Tuesday 4 October 2022 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 117. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 31. 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 30. Martins, E.S. (1990). Boraginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(4) Page 89. (Includes a picture). Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 140. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 41. |
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