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Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
Photo: Bart Wursten
By road from Birchenough Bridge-Masvingo Rd to Lake Kyle Recreational Park entrance gate
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herb or small shrub up to 1.3 m, growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves, 3-whorled, elliptic, densely, whitish puberulous mixed with yellowish glands, aromatic when crushed; margins more or less crenate-serrate. Flowers in axillary spikes; corolla white. |
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Derivation of specific name: | oatesii: named after Frank Oates (1840-1875), British naturalist and traveller who collected plants, birds and reptiles in Matabeleland. |
Habitat: | In grassland and mixed deciduous woodland; also on stony hillsides on serpentine soils of the Great Dyke |
Altitude range: (metres) | 750 - 1500 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Confined to Zimbabwe |
National distribution: | W,C,S |
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Endemic status: | Endemic |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 24. Fernandes, R. (2005). Verbenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(7) Pages 34 - 35. 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 82. |
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