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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
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. |
| Type location: |
Zambia |
| Notes: | The specimen recorded (Mapaura 643) appears to be the first record from Mozambique. |
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| Habitat: | Marshy seepage in grassland, stream banks, roadside ditches and disturbed wet depressions. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Above 800 m |
| Flowering time: | Apr-May & Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. |
| FZ divisions: | MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Sunday 30 November 2014 |
| Literature: |
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. |