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Dyschoriste trichocalyx
verticillaris
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Near site of former Kingsley Fairbridge memorial, Cecil Kop NR
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near site of former Kingsley Fairbridge memorial, Cecil Kop NR
Photo: Bart Wursten
Near site of former Kingsley Fairbridge memorial, Cecil Kop NR
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Calophanes verticillaris Oliv. Dyschoriste verticillaris C.B. Clarke |
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| Status: | Native |
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Perennial, sometimes shrubby herb growing from a woody rootstock. Stems mostly erect, rarely scrambling or decumbent, up to 1.5 m tall, more or less densely velvety, usually also with scattered stalked capitate glands and longer hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate to elliptic, 3-10.5 cm long, more or less densely velvety on both surfaces, usually more densely along the veins below. Flowers in axillary 3-15-flowered clusters often congested towards tip of stems; bracts narrowly elliptic, up to 2 cm long, sometimes with capitate glands. Calyx usually with viscid glandular short hairs and longer non-glandular hairs. Corolla distinctly 2-lipped, pale mauve-purple to bluish-purple, usually with darker markings on lower lip and in throat, 14-35 mm long; lobes oblong, deflexed in lower. Capsule 8-12 mm long. |
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| Habitat: | Occurring in Brachystegia woodland, Combretum and Acacia bush, grassland and dry riverine thickets. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | C,E |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 27 December 2010 |
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Flora of Mozambique: Dyschoriste trichocalyxAfrican Plant Database: Dyschoriste trichocalyx
Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Dyschoriste trichocalyx
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Dyschoriste trichocalyx
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Dyschoriste trichocalyx
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Dyschoriste trichocalyx
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Dyschoriste trichocalyx
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Dyschoriste trichocalyx
JSTOR Plant Science: Dyschoriste trichocalyx
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Dyschoriste trichocalyx
Tropicos: Dyschoriste trichocalyx
West African Plants database: Dyschoriste trichocalyx
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