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Hermannia kirkii
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
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| Synonyms: |
Hermannia filipes Harv. var. elatior K. Schum. Hermannia holubii Burtt Davy Hermannia lugardii N.E. Br. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect annual herb, up to 60 cm. Stems and branches with glandular and longer simple hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, up to 4 × 1.6 cm, appressed stellate-hairy on both surfaces and sometimes glandular; margins serrate. Flowers drooping, solitary, axillary, orange-red, pink purplish or rarely almost white; peduncle up to 3.5 cm long, pubescent. Fruit a oblong-ovoid capsule, up to 8 × 7 cm, thinly stellate-pubescent, with spreading apical horns, up to 1.5 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | kirkii: named after Dr John Kirk, who accompanied David Livingstone on his Zambezi expedition of 1858 |
| Habitat: | In dry open deciduous woodland, grassland margins of seasonal pans, sometimes as a weed of cultivation. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, S Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 30 March 2008 |
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Flora of Mozambique: Hermannia kirkiiAfrican Plant Database: Hermannia kirkii
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Hermannia kirkii
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Hermannia kirkii
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Hermannia kirkii
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Hermannia kirkii
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Hermannia kirkii
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Hermannia kirkii
JSTOR Plant Science: Hermannia kirkii
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Hermannia kirkii
Tropicos: Hermannia kirkii
West African Plants database: Hermannia kirkii
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