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| Synonyms: |
Fugosia digitata (Cav.) Pers. |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb or small shrub, up to c. 1 m tall but sometimes as short as 9 cm, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves suborbicular in outline, up to 5 × 5 cm, palmately 3–5-lobed down to the base; lobes narrowly elliptic to obovate, sometimes 3–5-lobed again, hairless or nearly so; petiole 8–25 mm long; stipules filiform or very narrowly linear, 2·5 mm long. Flowers solitary, axillary, 3·5–4 cm in diameter, yellow with a purple centre; peduncle 2–6 cm long. Epicalyx of up to 12 filiform to very narrowly linear bracts 2–3 mm long. Calyx 10–15 mm long with lobes elongate-triangular, black-spotted. Capsule subglobose, 9 mm wide, hairless. Seeds with silky floss. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | digitata: divided into lobes or leaflets like the fingers on a hand |
| Habitat: | In dry open woodland and grassland and thorn-scrub. |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and northern South Africa. Also in drier parts of western tropical Africa. |
| Botswana distribution: | N,SE |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial, shrub under 2 m. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 8. Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 426 - 428. 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 60. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 74. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 83. |
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