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Fadogia homblei
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Vumba rd before Bunga Forest, Vumba
Photo: Bart Wursten
Vumba rd before Bunga Forest, Vumba
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| Synonyms: |
Fadogia monticola Robyns |
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| Status: | Native | |
| Description: |
Erect perennial herb with unbranched annual stems, normally up to 60 cm, occasionally taller. Leaves in whorls of 3-5, elliptic or lanceolate, shiny green above, covered in greyish white papillose hairs below. Inflorescences in 3-5-flowered whorls at the leaf nodes, creamy yellow to bright yellow. Fruit spherical, crowned with the persistent calyx limb, green, turning black when ripe. | |
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| Habitat: | In grassland and Brachystegia woodland. | |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 1800 m | |
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| Zimbabwe distribution: | NE | |
| Growth form: | P | |
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Other sources of information about Fadogia homblei:
Flora of Mozambique: Fadogia hombleiBiodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Fadogia homblei
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Fadogia homblei
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Fadogia homblei
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Fadogia homblei
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Fadogia homblei
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Fadogia homblei
West African Plants database: Fadogia homblei
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