Stemodiopsis buchananii Skan
var. pubescens Philcox

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Stemodiopsis buchananii var. pubescens

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Path to Hadange Gorge, Chimanimani National Park

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Status: Native
Description:
Perennial herb with procumbent, much branched stems up to 20 cm long, mostly hairless except for a fine, minute pubescence on stems. Leaves opposite, ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 35 mm long; margin coarsely serrate-dentate; petiole about the same length as the leaf blade. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2-3 together. Pedicels 3–5 mm long, decurved in fruit. Calyx 3–5.5 mm long; lobes narrowly linear-triangular, 2.5–5 mm long, with prominent mid-vein. Corolla white with lip marked pink to purple, or mauve, 4.5–9.5 mm long; tube c. 2.5–5 mm. long; upper lip broadly ovate with lobes sub-triangular; lower lip subcircular to broadly obovate with lobes rounded. Capsule ellipsoid-conical, 4.5–7 mm long, including a beak 1.5–2.25 mm long, hairless, pale yellow-brown.
Notes: Similar to Stemodiopsis rivae which is distinguished by stems and leaves being covered in dense stiff whitish hairs.
Derivation of specific name: buchananii: after John Buchanan (1855 – 1896), Scottish horticulturist, missionary, farmer and plant collector in Malawi, who became Acting British Consul to Central Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Buchanan_(settler).
Habitat: In rock crevices.
Altitude range: (metres) Up to 1800 m
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Worldwide distribution: Only known from the Chimanimani area in Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Zimbabwe distribution: E
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Endemic status: Near Endemic
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Images last updated: Friday 12 March 2021
Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 53.

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 78. Under Scrophulariaceae

Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Pages 40 - 42.

Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 95.


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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Stemodiopsis buchananii
African Plant Database: Stemodiopsis buchananii
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Stemodiopsis buchananii
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JSTOR Plant Science: Stemodiopsis buchananii
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Stemodiopsis buchananii
Plants of the World Online: Stemodiopsis buchananii
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Wikipedia: Stemodiopsis buchananii


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Stemodiopsis buchananii var. pubescens.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=151270, retrieved 19 March 2024

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