Lippia oatesii Rolfe
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Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
At foot of hills just outside of Zvishavane on road to Mbalabala
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Perennial herb or small shrub up to 1.3 m, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves, 3-whorled, elliptic, densely, whitish puberulous mixed with yellowish glands, aromatic when crushed; margins more or less crenate-serrate. Flowers in axillary spikes; corolla white. |
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Derivation of specific name:
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oatesii: named after Frank Oates (1840-1875), British naturalist and traveller who collected plants, birds and reptiles in Matabeleland. |
Habitat:
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In grassland and mixed deciduous woodland; also on stony hillsides on serpentine soils of the Great Dyke |
Altitude range: (metres) |
750 - 1500 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Confined to Zimbabwe |
Zimbabwe distribution:
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W,C,S |
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Endemic status:
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Endemic |
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Spot characters:
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Images last updated: |
Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
Literature:
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Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 24.
Fernandes, R. (2005). Verbenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 34 - 35.
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 82.
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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: Lippia oatesii. https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148730, retrieved 20 April 2024
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