Pentanisia sykesii Hutch.
subsp. otomerioides Verdc.

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Slopes towards Mt Binga, Chimanimani National Reseve.

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with prostrate, spreading or erect stems up to c. 30 cm long, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-oblong, 1-6 cm long, lateral veins almost invisible, hairless. Flowers in dense capitate inflorescences, blue, rarely white; styles 3-5, exserted. Fruit spherical, 4-8 mm in diameter, fleshy and succulent, shallowly lobed, hairless, black when ripe. For differences between this species and the similar P. schweinfurthii consult the key to species.
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Habitat:	In grassland and along roadsides, flowering soon after the grass has been burned.
Altitude range:	1050 - 1810 m
Flowering time:	Aug - Nov
Worldwide distribution:	Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	MS
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Content last updated:	Sunday 22 December 2019
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 43. 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 73. Verdcourt, B. (1988). Rubiaceae, Part 1 Flora Zambesiaca 5(1) Pages 61 - 62. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 99.

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