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Synonyms: |
Baumiella imbricata (Schinz) H.Wolff Bunium imbricatum (Schinz) Drude Carum imbricatum Schinz Pimpinella imbricata (Schinz) Engl. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Hairless perennial herb up to 1 m tall, growing from a creeping rhizome with tuberous nodules. Stems hollow, finely grooved, mostly unbranched below the inflorescence. Leaves pinnate up to 35 cm long; leaflets stiff and somewhat leathery, angled and overlapping like louvered slats, particularly in young leaves, irregularly ovate; margin thick and hardened with strongly developed teeth. Inflorescences sparsely branched with compound umbels with up to 25 rays; bracts numerous, linear-lanceolate, up to 10 mm long. Subumbels 10-25-flowered, greenish-white to yellow. Fruit slightly compressed, conspicuously ribbed. |
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Derivation of specific name: | imbricata, overlapping, imbricate, referring to the leaflets. |
Habitat: | In bogs, marshes, grassland and woodland. |
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Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | C,E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Monday 27 July 2015 |
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 61. (Includes a picture). Cannon, J.F.M. (1978). Apiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Pages 595 - 598. as Baumiella imbricata (Includes a picture). 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 24. As Baumiella imbricata 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 17. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 23. |
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