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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Spreading more or less prostrate perennial herb. Branches up to 1 m long, densely short-pubescent Leaves subsessile, oblanceolate-oblong, 3-5 cm long, hairless or sparsely glandular pubescent above, more densely below. Flowers axillary, solitary or few together deep blue to violet, darker near the centre, with 2 white markings in the throat of the corolla. Fruit a small capsule, very broadly obovate, laterally compressed, c. 4.5 × 5.5 mm, short-pubescent. |
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Derivation of specific name: | decumbens: (of stems) lying on the ground and tending to rise at the end |
Habitat: | In grassland and open woodland on various soil types, particularly in sand or basalt clay. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 850 - 1100 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa |
Zimbabwe distribution: | W |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Tuesday 16 June 2009 |
Literature: |
Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 57. (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 77. Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 7. Pickering, H. & Roe, E. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Victoria Falls Area Helen Pickering, London Page 105. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 102. |
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