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Synonyms: |
Convolvulus oenotherae Vatke Ipomoea cecilae N.E. Br. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herb, growing from a tuberous rootstock. Stems prostrate or ascending, up to 50 cm long, densely white hairy. Leaves variable. Basal leaves often in a rosette, long-petiolate, lanceolate to linear, up to 8 cm long, entire or with 2 lateral teeth or distinct lobes. Leaves along the stems 2-6.5 cm long, usually subpalmately or pinnately 3-7 lobed; lobes linear to lanceolate, whitish hairy when young. Flowers solitary, axillary. Corolla narrowly funnel-shaped, 2.5-5 cm long, mauve to purple. Capsule spherical, hairless, straw-coloured. Seeds densely appressed pubescent. |
Type location: |
Kenya |
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Habitat: | Occurring in sandy soil in mixed woodland and grassland. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 1580 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and Mpumalanga, South Africa |
National distribution: | N,W,C |
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Endemic status: | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Tuesday 28 February 2012 |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 22. As Ipomoea oenotherae Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Page 65. 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 36. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 50. as Ipomoea oenotherae |
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