Raphionacme dyeri Retief & Venter

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c. 25 km SW of Thabazimbe, South Africa

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb, up to 15 cm high, growing from a ovoid tuber c. 10 cm in diameter. Stems up to 15 cm long, decumbent or spreading horizontally, reddish-green, hairy. Leaves opposite, more or less narrowly ovate, 2-6.5 cm long, mostly folded lengthwise, dull bluish-green and hairless above, hairy below; apex mucronate; petiole up to 3 mm long. Flowers in terminal or axillary branched heads, 3-5 flowers per branch. Sepals purplish-green. Corolla lobes spreading, oblong-ovate, 4-8 mm long, purplish-green outside, hairy, inside yellowish-green with a bright magenta-purple inverted 'V'. Corona lobes 3-partite; central segment filiform c. 10 mm, much longer than lateral. Fruit in paired follicles, spreading horizontally, narrowly ovoid, 5-8 cm long.
Notes:	Originally thought to be endemic to the highveld grassland of the South African Free State, it has more recently been recorded from the Limpopo Province and Southern Zimbabwe.
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Habitat:	Occurring in grassland and dry open woodland, on sandy and clay rich soils.
Altitude range: (metres)	1000 - 1400 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Southern Zimbabwe and Limpopo and Free State, South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	S
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Literature:	Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 31. Venter, H.J.T. (2009). A Taxonomic revision of Raphionacme (Apocynaceae: Periplocoideae) South African Journal of Botany 75(2) Pages 305 - 306.

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