Stoebe vulgaris Levyns

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Photo: Bart Wursten
Pungwe Scenic Drive, Nyanga NP

Photo: Mark Hyde
Owenwee Cottage, World's View, Nyanga

Photo: Michelle Harvey-Hyde
Owenwee Cottage, World's View, Nyanga

Photo: Bart Wursten
Kwaraguza Road, near Troutbeck

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Synonyms:
Common names:	Bankrupt bush (English) Hanya (Shona) Zigzag bush (English)
Frequency:	Common in the Nyanga area of the Eastern Highlands
Status:	Native
Description:	Spreading shrub, often forming dense tangled clumps.
Notes:	Plants often show numerous fluffy white galls that could be mistaken for flowers but these are infestations caused by small midges in the family Cecidomyiidae.
Derivation of specific name:	vulgaris: vulgar, common, usual
Habitat:	Along forest margins and in montane grassland; also in more disturbed habitats such as roadsides
Altitude range: (metres)	1500 - 2400 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution:	Mozambique, Zimbabwe and from Limpopo Province south to the Cape in South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
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Images last updated:	Wednesday 23 June 2021
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 53. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 278. 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 28. Wild, H. (1955). Common Rhodesian Weeds Government of Rhodesia, Salisbury Page 76. (Includes a picture). Wild, H. (1980). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area, 12. Inuleae (continued). Kirkia 12(1) Pages 67 - 68.

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