Hermannia eenii Baker f.

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Synonyms:	Hermannia angolensis K. Schum.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Prostrate perennial herb; young branchlets with densely yellowish rough hairs. Leaves oblong-ovate, up to 4 cm and 2 cm wide, appressed-pubescent with yellowish stellate hairs, veins somewhat impressed above and prominent below; margin often coarsely serrate or crenate; petiole up to 1 cm long; stipules up to 3 mm long, subulate. Flowers axillary, 1 or rarely 2 together, reflexed on slender peduncles up to 3 cm long. Calyx 6–7 mm long, with spreading or recurved narrowly triangular lobes up to 5 mm long, densely yellowish hairy outside. Petals spoon-shaped with inrolled margins c. 4 mm long, pink.. Capsule obovoid, c. 6 mm long, rounded or crowned with 5 short blunt truncate processes, with long yellowish hairs.
Notes:	This species is generally similar to Hermannia tomentosa which differs in the more narrowly elliptic, longer leaves, an overall greyish indumentum and yellowish flowers.
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Habitat:	Dry woodland, along roadsides and in grassland at the edge of seasonal swamps.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia.
Botswana distribution:	N,SW
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Content last updated:	Friday 23 March 2018
Literature:	Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 141. (Includes a picture). 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 80. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 75. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 107. Wild, H. (1960-1). Sterculiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Page 543. As Hermannia angolensis (Includes a picture).

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