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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect shrubby perennial herb, up to c. 2 m tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Young stems with mixed glandular and non-glandular hairs. Leaves opposite, elliptic to obovate, up to 7.5 cm long, mostly hairless or with scattered longer hairs on the veins below; base decurrent to the stem with subauriculate lobes; margin scalloped. Flowers appearing in open, branched dichotomous heads, all branches ending in a flower; bracts leaf-like near the base of the inflorescence,glandular hairy. Calyx 7-9 mm long with narrowly triangular teeth, glandular hairy. *** ?? Corolla white with a mauve or uniformly mauve and orange spots at the base of the ; palate with long stiff hairs. Fruit an obovoid hairless capsule, 6-8 mm long. |
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| Notes: | Note: Only known from two older collections from northern Mozambique. Probably under collected and may also occur in southern Tanzania. Data deficient but should probably be listed as Vulnerable. |
| Derivation of specific name: | dichotomum: dichotomous; regularly forking into two, referring to the inflorescence. |
| Habitat: | Occurring in grassland on black cotton soil. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Northern Mozambique and possibly in southern Tanzania. |
| FZ divisions: | N |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Vulnerable |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 79. Vollesen, K. (2013). Acanthaceae (Part 1) Flora Zambesiaca 8(5) Pages 161 - 162. |