Raphionacme palustris Venter & R.L. Verh.

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial hairless herb, up to 50 cm high, growing from a spindle-shaped tuberous taproot, up to 25 cm long. Stems up to 50 cm long, erect or sub-erect, branched, becoming violet when older. Leaves opposite, oblong-ovate, up to 6 × 3 cm, dark green above, paler below, veining translucent; margin violet; petiole 2-10 mm long, violet. Flowers in axillary and terminal, few-flowered heads. Sepals brownish-violet. Corolla lobes spreading, obovate-oblong, c. 10 × 5 mm, pale greenish-violet outside, whitish-violet inside. Corona whitish-violet, apically lobed. Fruit normally a single erect follicle, very narrowly cylindric, 18-27 cm long, pointed.
Notes:	Only known from one collection: Hoffe 9, Kadoma (PRE)
Derivation of specific name:	palustris: of swamps and marshes.
Habitat:	Occurring in swamps and wet grassland.
Altitude range: (metres)	1150 m (approx)
Flowering time:	Sep - Oct
Worldwide distribution:	Zimbabwe, and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Zimbabwe distribution:	C
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Literature:	Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 47 - 48. Venter, H.J.T. (2009). A Taxonomic revision of Raphionacme (Apocynaceae: Periplocoideae) South African Journal of Botany 75(2) Pages 330 - 333.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Raphionacme palustris
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