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Synonyms: |
Pupalia remotiflora (Hook.) Moq. Sericocoma remotiflora (Hook.) Hook. f. Trichinium remotiflorum Hook. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Bushy, perennial herb, up to 1 m tall with wiry branches; young branches green and woolly, soon becoming hairless and older branches brownish-yellow to purplish. Leaves often in clusters embedded in long woolly hairs, linear, subterete, 6-32 mm long, mostly hairless, sometimes somewhat woolly. Inflorescences much elongating up to 25 cm with widely separated flowers, white, dull yellow or greenish; tepals narrowly lanceolate, 8-10 mm long; stamens 6-7 mm long at anthesis, more or less equalling the perianth, white or pinkish; anthers very long and narrow, c. 4 mm long, exceeding the filaments. Fruiting partial inflorescences forming a fluffy ball c. 1.5-2 cm in diameter. |
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Habitat: | On bare open ground, eroded grassland, open mopane woodland and other dry deciduous woodland and bushland. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 550 - 1100 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Also recorded for Mozambique. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | W,E,S |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Sunday 18 October 2015 |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 51. Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 21. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 16. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 22. Townsend, C.C. (1988). Amaranthaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(1) Pages 67 - 69. (Includes a picture). |
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