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Native |
Description:
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Usually a herbaceous climber with thick succulent, glabrous stems, sometimes a weakly erect herb or shrub. Leaves 4.5-7 × 1.5-3 cm, glabrous, elliptic or obovate; base attenuate into a weakly defined
petiole up to 3.5 cm; apex acute; margin irregularly serrate. Inflorescence a branched corymbose panicle. Capitula usually radiate, less often without rays. Phyllaries 3-4 mm. Rays (if present) yellow. Ovary hairy. |
| Notes:
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Specimens of this species could not be found in SRGH on 11 January 2007. |
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| Habitat:
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Scrambling over bushes on termite mounds and by rivers |
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| Worldwide distribution:
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From Yemen southwards into NE Africa and southwards to South Africa |
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Zimbabwe distribution:
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C,E |
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| Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
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Images last updated: |
Sunday 14 January 2007 |
| Literature:
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Jeffrey, C. (1986). The Senecioneae in East Tropical Africa: Notes on Compositae: IV Kew Bulletin 41(4) Page 898.
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.
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