Description:
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Multi-branched annual with decumbent stems up to 1 m long, often reddish, rooting at the nodes. Leaves distichous, sessile, ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5-6 cm long; basal sheats often purplish, split to the base, hairless or white-ciliate at the apex. Spaths solitary, leaf-opposed on the long shoots and also densely clustered on short axillary shoots. Spathsslightly falcate, 1.1-2.7 cm long, truncate to cordate at the base; margins free, usually ciliate, 1-3(5)-flowered. Flowers, bisexual, c. 7.5 mm wide; petals pale yellow. |
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Timberlake, J., Darbyshire, I., Wursten, B., Hadj-Hammou, J., Ballings, P., Mapaura, A., Matimele, H., Banze, A., Chipanga, H., Muassinar, D., Massunde, J., Chelene, I., Osborne, J., Shah, T. (2016). Chimanimani Mountains: Botany and Conservation. Report produced under CEPF Grant 63512. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. Page 47.
Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 82.
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