Hermannia staurostemon K. Schum.

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Stapleford road near junction with Penhalonga road

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Frequency:	Locally frequent
Status:	Native
Description:	Shrubby perennial herb, uo to 40 cm high with spreading to ascending branches. All vegetative parts more or less densely greyish-stellate-hairy and with some glandular hairs. Leaves narrowly oblong-elliptic to lanceolate; margin entire to serrate; petiole up to 6 mm long; stipules oblong-lanceolate, up to 2 cm long but mostly smaller, 3-veined from the base. Flowers mostly in 3-5-flowered axillary clusters on peduncles up to 4 mm long; bracts solitary, lanceolate, up to 1 cm long, entire, toothed or 2-3-partite. Calyx 7-10 mm long, lobed to about half the length, densely glandular hairy. Petals oblong-spathulate, 8-12 mm long, yellow, densely pubescent in the lower half.
Notes:	Zimbabwean plants appear to have more prominently serrated leaves and smaller flowers than those from South Africa but otherwise match very well.
Derivation of specific name:	staurostemon: with crosswise stamens.
Habitat:	Submontane ericoid and bracken scrub, along mountain streams and roadsides.
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Worldwide distribution:	Eastern Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
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Images last updated:	Tuesday 25 December 2018
Literature:	Fabian, A. & Germishuizen, G. (1997). Wild Flowers of Northern South Africa. Fernwood Press, Vlaeburg. Pages 260 - 261. (Includes a picture). 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 80. Wild, H. (1960-1). Sterculiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Page 541. (Includes a picture).

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Hermannia staurostemon
African Plant Database: Hermannia staurostemon
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Hermannia staurostemon
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Hermannia staurostemon
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Hermannia staurostemon
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