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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. |
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| 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. |
| FZ divisions: | C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| 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. |