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Frequency: | Common in high rainfall areas |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Annual or perennial herb, ± erect or ascending, to 70 cm. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate or elliptic; margin crenate-serrate. Flowers in lax 3-10-flowered pedunculate racemes. Corolla 8-13 mm, pink, mauve, purple or rarely white, with two longitudinal yellowish crests in the mouth of the tube. All anthers penicillate at apex. Capsule 2-3.5 mm, 2-valved. |
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Derivation of specific name: | goetzei: named after Walther Goetze (1872-1899), German naturalist and photographer, who collected both flora and fauna in Tanzania. |
Habitat: | In grassland, on rocky hillsides or at forest margins, often on disturbed ground. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 1400 - 2400 m |
Flowering time: | Oct - Mar |
Worldwide distribution: | Southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, South Africa. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | C,E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Saturday 22 February 2014 |
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 196. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 37. 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 58. Under Lobeliaceae Thulin, M. (1983). Lobeliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 138 - 139. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 90. |
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