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Frequency: | Rare |
Status: | Introduced |
Description: |
Perennial with prostrate branches growing from a strong and deep taproot. Leaves round to kidney-shaped in outline, 1-6 cm wide, unlobed or shallowly 5-6-lobed, sparsely strigose hairy on both surfaces, often with simple hairs above and stellate hairs beneath; margin crenate-denticulate; petiole 3-20 cm long, softly stellate hairy; stipules ovate-acuminate. Flowers in up to 4-flowered clusters. Epicalyx lobes 3, linear-lanceolate, 3-4 mm long. Calyx 5-7 mm long, lobed to about the middle, stellate hairy. Petals 3-10 mm long, whiteusually with mauve or purplish tinge towards the apex and on the veins. Fruit 6-8 mm in diameter with 12-15 mericarps, stellate hairy. |
Type location: |
Europe |
Notes: | Only known from one record in South eastern Zimbabwe but more common in South Africa. |
Derivation of specific name: | neglecta: overlooked |
Habitat: | Disturbed and cultivated areas |
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Worldwide distribution: | Native to Europe and parts of Asia but naturalized in North America and South Africa. |
FZ divisions: | E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Sunday 22 May 2016 |
Literature: |
Exell, A.W. (1961). Malvaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 502 - 503. 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 61. |