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Synonyms: |
Breweria suffruticosa Schinz Convolvulus mucronatus Engl. Seddera mucronata Hallier f. Seddera welwitschii Hallier f. subsp. tenuisepala Verdc. |
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Frequency: | |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Erect or spreading perennial shrubby herb with annual stems, up to 60 cm tall, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves subsessile, lanceolate to broadly elliptic-oblong, up to 4.5 cm long, covered with medifixed hairs on both surfaces; apex often with a mucronate tip. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters, small, funnel-shaped, white or yellowish. Capsule ovoid to subspherical, hairless. See var. hirsutissima for comparison. |
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Derivation of specific name: | suffruticosa: a suffrutex, shrubby plant, woody at the base, regrowing annually from a strong perennial underground base. |
Habitat: | In sandy or stony soils in deciduous woodland, scrub, wooded grassland and along roadsides. |
Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1370 m |
Flowering time: | Oct - Mar |
Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini and South Africa. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,E,S |
Growth form(s): | Perennial, shrub under 2 m. |
Endemic status: | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Tuesday 21 July 2009 |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 50. As Seddera suffruticosa Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 32. As Seddera suffruticosa Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 17 - 18. (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 37. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 51. Verdcourt, B. (1960). New Convolvulaceae from the Flora Zambesiaca Area Kirkia 1 Pages 26 - 27. As Seddera welwitschii subsp. tenuisepala (Includes a picture). |
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