Craterostigma pumilum
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Photo: Penny English
Ripple Creek section of Bubye Valley Conservancy
Photo: Penny English
Ripple Creek section of Bubye Valley Conservancy
Photo: Penny English
Ripple Creek section of Bubye Valley Conservancy
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small perennial herb. Leaves in a basal rosette, obovate, 2-4 × 1-2 cm, hairless and smooth above (rarely with a few hairs), densely pubescent beneath; margin closely ciliate. Inflorescence arising from the centre of the rosette on a ± sessile peduncle with relatively long (2-3 cm) pedicels bearing individual flowers. Corolla c. 15 mm long; colour varying from purple or blue to pink with a white and yellowish throat; upper lip entire; lower lip 3-lobed. |
| Type location: |
Ethiopia |
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| Derivation of specific name: | pumilum: dwarf |
| Habitat: | In moist shallow soil over rocks. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| FZ divisions: | N,W,C,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Saturday 30 November 2013 |
| Literature: |
Hepper, F.N. (1990). Craterostigma Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 54. 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. Under Scrophulariaceae Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 54. |
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