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Frequency: | Occasional |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Erect annual herb, up to 2 m but usually less. Stems with a line of stellate hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to ovate, often 5-veined from the base; margin serrate. Flowers in dense axillary and terminal clusters, white with a yellow base. Capsule 5 mm in diameter, subspherical, 5-valved, surrounded by the persistent calyx. |
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Habitat: | In a variety of disturbed habitats, often as a weed of cultivation. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Widespread throughout the Old World tropics. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Thursday 21 September 2006 |
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 275. (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. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 108. Wild, H. (1960-1). Sterculiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 534 - 535. (Includes a picture). |
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