Seddera suffruticosa (Schinz) Hallier f.
var. suffruticosa

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Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River

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Road from Robins Camp to the Matetsi Safari Area gate, Hwange NP

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Along roadside Mahenye Village.

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Synonyms:	Breweria suffruticosa Schinz Convolvulus mucronatus Engl. Seddera mucronata Hallier f. Seddera welwitschii Hallier f. subsp. tenuisepala Verdc.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Erect or spreading perennial shrubby herb with annual stems, up to 60 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate to broadly elliptic-oblong, up to 4.5 cm long, covered with medifixed hairs on both surfaces; apex often with a mucronate tip. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters, small, funnel-shaped, white or yellowish. Capsule ovoid to subspherical, hairless. See var. hirsutissima for comparison.
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Derivation of specific name:	suffruticosa: a suffrutex, shrubby plant, woody at the base, regrowing annually from a strong perennial underground base.
Habitat:	In sandy or stony soils in deciduous woodland, scrub, wooded grassland and along roadsides.
Flowering time:	Oct - Mar
Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and South Africa.
Botswana distribution:	N,SW,SE
Growth form(s):	Perennial, shrub under 2 m.
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Content last updated:	Sunday 5 July 2015
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 50. As Seddera suffruticosa Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 32. As Seddera suffruticosa Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 17 - 18. (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 37. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 51. Verdcourt, B. (1960). New Convolvulaceae from the Flora Zambesiaca Area Kirkia 1 Pages 26 - 27. As Seddera welwitschii subsp. tenuisepala (Includes a picture).

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