Trifolium semipilosum Fresen.
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Dam 2, Southern Loop, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda Camp, staff area, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda Camp, staff area, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda Camp, staff area, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda Camp, staff area, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda Camp, staff area, Nyika National Park
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Chelinda Camp, staff area, Nyika National Park
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Description:
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Perennial herb with hairy prostrate stems, often rooting at the nodes. Leaves trifoliolate with leaflets orbicular-obovate or elliptic-oblong, rounded or more or less emarginate at the apex, hairless above but with silky hairs on the lateral leaflets beneath, sometimes only on the midrib; margins more or less faintly toothed; petiole quite long, hairless or silky hairy. Flowers depressed globose on a silky hairy peduncle longer than the leaves. Flowers white, tinged pink or purple-red. |
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The variety listed for Zimbabwe as cultivated is var. glabrescens J.B. Gillett. This variety differs in the more obovate-emarginate leaflets with larger, sharper teeth on the margin and with a few hairs only on the midrib beneath. |
Derivation of specific name:
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semipilosum: somewhat hairy or pilose. |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Yemen, Eritrea, Ethiopia Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and northern Malawi. |
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Literature:
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Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 169. (Includes a picture).
Martins, E.S. et al. (2003). Papilionoideae Flora Zambesiaca 3(7) Pages 49 - 50.
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