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Synonyms: |
Sopubia fastigiata Hiern Sopubia welwitschii Engl. var. micrantha Engl. |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Erect robust perennial or undershrub to 1 m, pubescent to tomentose. Leaves 15-40 mm, opposite to subwhorled, simple to 3-fid or 5-fid with segments 1-1.5 mm wide; margin thickened. Inflorescence 5-20 mm, spike-like, simple or much-branched, relatively lax with the axis visible between the whorls. Flowers pink, mauve to purple. Bracteoles narrowly linear. Calyx 6-11 × c. 4-5 mm; lobes 3-9.5 mm, calyx not apparently inflated or enlarged, densely tomentose on the outside. Corolla 15-22 mm in diameter. Capsule glabrous, spherical to broadly ovoid. |
Notes: | See also var. macrocalyx. |
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Habitat: | In damp ground in grassland. |
Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1450 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
Zimbabwe distribution: | W |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Saturday 11 May 2019 |
Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 268. 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. Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Pages 147 - 149. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 98. |
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