Details of record no: 59498

Xerophyta argentea (Wild) L.B. Sm. & Ayensu

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Date: 22 Apr 2014
Recorder(s):BT Wursten
A Mapaura
P Ballings
J Timberlake
J Hadj-Hammou
Collector(s):BT Wursten
P Ballings
PB2298
Determiner(s):BT Wursten
Confirmer(s):J Timberlake
Herbarium:BR
Habitat: In shallow soils on rocky quartzite sandstone slope
Location: Higher slopes of Mt Nhamudimu, Chimanimani Mts
Location code(s): 168
Outing code: 32
Planted code: Not planted
Country: Mozambique
Quarter Degree Square: 1933C1
Grid reference:
FZ Division: MS
Altitude (metres): 1950
Notes: Woodly subshrub up to 40 cm high with tufts of linear dleaves growing from a solid fibrous base, blackened by fires; flowers mauve purple; glandular tuberculate on peduncle, ovary and outside corolla lobes. Many specimens seen but only one with flowers; generally common in the area
Latitude, Longitude:
Location Accuracy Code: 7

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Image: 6

Xerophyta argentea
Species id:115230
Image id:6
Image number:17714
Photographer: BT Wursten
Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen:0
Herbarium in which image taken:
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Image notes:Woodly subshrub up to 40 cm high with tufts of linear dleaves growing from a solid fibrous base, blackened by fires; flowers mauve purple; glandular tuberculate on peduncle, ovary and outside corolla lobes. Many specimens seen but only one with flowers; generally common in the area

Image: 7

Xerophyta argentea
Species id:115230
Image id:7
Image number:17715
Photographer: BT Wursten
Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen:0
Herbarium in which image taken:
Code 1 if image not to be displayed:0
Image notes:Woodly subshrub up to 40 cm high with tufts of linear dleaves growing from a solid fibrous base, blackened by fires; flowers mauve purple; glandular tuberculate on peduncle, ovary and outside corolla lobes. Many specimens seen but only one with flowers; generally common in the area

Image: 8

Xerophyta argentea
Species id:115230
Image id:8
Image number:17716
Photographer: BT Wursten
Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen:0
Herbarium in which image taken:
Code 1 if image not to be displayed:0
Image notes:Woodly subshrub up to 40 cm high with tufts of linear dleaves growing from a solid fibrous base, blackened by fires; flowers mauve purple; glandular tuberculate on peduncle, ovary and outside corolla lobes. Many specimens seen but only one with flowers; generally common in the area

Image: 9

Xerophyta argentea
Species id:115230
Image id:9
Image number:17717
Photographer: BT Wursten
Code 1 if image of a herbarium specimen:0
Herbarium in which image taken:
Code 1 if image not to be displayed:0
Image notes:Woodly subshrub up to 40 cm high with tufts of linear dleaves growing from a solid fibrous base, blackened by fires; flowers mauve purple; glandular tuberculate on peduncle, ovary and outside corolla lobes. Many specimens seen but only one with flowers; generally common in the area

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: Individual record no: 59498: Xerophyta argentea.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=59498, retrieved 28 March 2024

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