Barleria elegans
orientalis
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SRGH
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SRGH
Photo: Mark Hyde
SRGH
Photo: Mark Hyde
Outside Dandaro, Harare
Photo: Mark Hyde
Outside Dandaro, Harare
Photo: Mark Hyde
Outside Dandaro, Harare
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Scrambling perennial herb, up to c. 1.3 m tall. Stems finely hairy. Leaves opposite, petiolate, oblong-elliptic, up to c. 8 × 3 cm, dark green above, paler below. Flowers in axillary clusters with lanceolate spiny bracts. Corolla c. 2 cm in diameter, white. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | elegans: elegant |
| Habitat: | In dry riverine thickets, often in shade |
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| Flowering time: | Mar - May |
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| FZ divisions: | Z,MS,GI,M |
| Growth form(s): | Shrub under 2 m. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Bandeira, S., Bolnick, D. & Barbosa, F. (2007). Wild Flowers of Southern Mozambique Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique Page 191. As Barleria elegans (Includes a picture). Biegel, H.M. (1977). Check-list of ornamental plants used in Rhodesian parks and gardens. Rhodesia Agricultural Journal. Research Report No. 3. Page 26. Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 45 - 46. 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 13. |
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