Heliotropium supinum L.

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Heliotropium supinum

Photo: Dave Winhall
Mopane Pan near Rifa Conservation Education Camp, Chirundu

Heliotropium supinum

Photo: Bart Wursten
Along track to Chobe Camp, Ngoma

Heliotropium supinum

Photo: Ineke te Velde
9 km SE of Dete, near Hwange National Park

Heliotropium supinum

Photo: Ineke te Velde
9 km SE of Dete, near Hwange National Park

Heliotropium supinum

Photo: Ineke te Velde
9 km SE of Dete, near Hwange National Park

Heliotropium supinum

Photo: Ineke te Velde
9 km SE of Dete, near Hwange National Park

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Status: Native
Description:
Prostrate or decumbent annual herb with stems up to 35 cm long, more or less densely covered with a mix of appressed and longer spreading hairs. Leaves alternate or subopposite near the base, broadly ovate to broadly obovate, or rarely almost round, 10–35 mm long, densely appressed-pubescent above, pubescent or tomentose and bristly on the veins beneath, often very asymmetrical at base, veins usually impressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 3–15 mm long (up to 27 mm on the basal leaves). Inlorescences mostly 1, rarely 2–3 on each terminal peduncle, short. Flowers (sub)sessile. Calyx 2.0–2.8 mm long, enlarged up to 4.5(6) mm in fruit, bristly outside, appressed hairy inside. Corolla as long as or slightly longer than the calyx, persisting over the fruit; tube greenish, densely clothed with retrorse appressed hairs outside, hairless inside; limb white, divided into 5 minute oblong subequal lobes. Fruits ovoid, up to 4 mm long, hairless, enclosed in the calyx.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: supinum: prostrate
Habitat: In dried-up water holes and pools, on heavy black or brown soils.
Altitude range: (metres) 250 - 1350 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Throughout Africa, Southern Europe, Middle East, Arabia, Iraq, India.
Zimbabwe distribution: N,W,C,S
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Images last updated: Tuesday 13 March 2018
Literature:

Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 356. (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 30.

Martins, E.S. (1990). Boraginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(4) Page 93. (Includes a picture).

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 41.


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Flora of Botswana: Heliotropium supinum
Flora of Caprivi: Heliotropium supinum
Flora of Mozambique: Heliotropium supinum
Flora of Zambia: Heliotropium supinum

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Heliotropium supinum
African Plant Database: Heliotropium supinum
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Heliotropium supinum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Heliotropium supinum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Heliotropium supinum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Heliotropium supinum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Heliotropium supinum
JSTOR Plant Science: Heliotropium supinum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Heliotropium supinum
Plants of the World Online: Heliotropium supinum
Tropicos: Heliotropium supinum
Wikipedia: Heliotropium supinum


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Heliotropium supinum.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148420, retrieved 28 March 2024

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