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Synonyms: |
Bartramia indica L. Triumfetta diversifolia E. Mey. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Usually annual or rarely perennial herb, up to 2 m tall but usually shorter. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, unlobed to distinctly 3 lobed, 2.5 - 15 cm long, 3-7 veined from the base; apex acute; base cordate or truncate; margin irregularly serrate. Flowers in axillary cymes, yellow. Sepals c. 5 mm long, often tipped dark red, linear, narrower and longer than the petals. Fruit spherical, tomentose, 4-5 mm in diameter including the short bristles or aculei. |
Notes: | See Triumfetta pentandra for comparison. |
Derivation of specific name: | rhomboidea: rhombic or more or less diamond-shaped, referring to the leaves. |
Habitat: | In a variety of cultivated and disturbed habitats. |
Altitude range: (metres) | |
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Worldwide distribution: | Pan-tropical and subtropical, including South Africa. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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Endemic status: | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Sunday 30 May 2010 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 279. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 57. As Triumfetta rhomboidea rhomboidea Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. As Triumfetta rhomboidea rhomboidea 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 81. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 109. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 181. Wild, H. (1955). Common Rhodesian Weeds Government of Rhodesia, Salisbury Page 40. (Includes a picture). Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Pages 73 - 74. |
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