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Melanospermum foliosum
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Gaborone West extension 6
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Gaborone West extension 6
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Gaborone West extension 6
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Gaborone West extension 6
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| Synonyms: |
Polycarena discolor Schinz Polycarena foliosa Benth. Polycarena transvaalensis auct. non Hiern |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect herb, up to 16 cm high, minutely glandular-pubescent occasionally sparsely mixed with whitish hairs. Leaves opposite, sometimes alternate above; lower leaves obovate to broadly elliptic-lanceolate, 7–17 mm long, tapering to a petiole-like base; upper leaves linear to lanceolate-linear, 4.5–20 mm long; magins entire to laxly dentate. Flowers sessile to subsessile in short, terminal, spherical or slightly elongated heads. Bracts oblong, 1.6–2.4 mm long. Calyx 1.9–2.2 mm long, deeply 5-lobed. Corolla white to pale pinkish-mauve with yellow-orange throat; tube up to 2 mm long, widening at mouth; lobes broadly obovate, c. 1.5 mm long. Capsule c. 2.5 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | foliosum: leafy |
| Habitat: | In grassland, mostly on Kalahari sand. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mpumalanga South Africa. |
| Botswana distribution: | SE |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 20 March 2020 |
| Literature: |
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 78. Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Pages 25 - 26. As Polycarena transvaalensis (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 104. |
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