Tinnea rhodesiana S. Moore
Images: Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record Photo: Bart Wursten Rimiti West, by Mutare to Birchenough Br. rd
Photo: Bart Wursten Rimiti West, by Mutare to Birchenough Br. rd
Photo: Bart Wursten Rimiti West, by Mutare to Birchenough Br. rd
Photo: Bart Wursten At Lay-by near along Birchenough Bridge to Masvingo road
Photo: Bart Wursten At Lay-by near along Birchenough Bridge to Masvingo road
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Status:
Native
Description:
Much-branched shrubby perennial, up to 1.5 m. Stems and branches covered in minute velvety hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, dark green above, paler below, gland-dotted. Flowers pendulous, strongly scented. Calyx bell-shaped; corolla dark purple-brown, velvety on the outside; lip broadly 3-lobed. Fruit encased in the inflated remains of the calyx.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:
rhodesiana : of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe, or sometimes Zambia)
Habitat:
In dry open woodland, often on stony ground.
Altitude range: (metres)
Flowering time:
Nov - Apr
Worldwide distribution:
Angola, northern Namibia, Zimbabwe, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:
N,W,C,E,S
Growth form:
P
Endemic status:
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Content last updated:
Tuesday 10 April 2012
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Tinnea rhodesiana Flora Zambesiaca web site:
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Tinnea rhodesiana West African Plants database :
Tinnea rhodesiana
Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings, 2002-13
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. & Ballings, P.
(2013) .
Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Tinnea rhodesiana. http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=149160, retrieved 22 May 2013
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