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| Frequency: | Rare and local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Mostly unbranched, erect perennial herb, up to 80 cm high. Leaves basal and along the stem. Basal leaves usually dried up at flowering time. Stem leaves lanceolate, thin and papery with short stiff hairs on both surfaces, up 16 × 4 cm, lower down, gradually smaller towards the top and grading into bracts at the inflorescence. Flowers in small one-sided spikes, together arranged into a more or less lax, branched terminal inflorescence. Corolla, up to 5 mm across, white with a blue throat. Fruits c. 8 mm in diameter, consisting of 4 small nutlets, covered in sticky hairs. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | wildii: after Professor Hiram Wild (1917-1982), former Head of the National Herbarium (SRGH), taxonomist and avid collector. |
| Habitat: | On the forest floor under Podocarpus latifolius forest |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Zimbabwe and possibly also in Mozambique |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
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 30. Martins, E.S. (1990). Boraginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(4) Page 108. |
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