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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect perennial herb, up to 25 cm high. Leaves opposite, sessile, ascending, linear, 5-10 cm long, sparsely pubescent on both surfaces or sometimes hairless below. Flowers in branched heads in the upper leaf axils, densely pubescent. Corolla lobes ovate, c. 4 × 2 mm, violet, hairless. Corona lobes fleshy, 3-segmented; central segment 3-4 mm long; lateral segments 0.5-1.5 mm long, hairless. Fruit not known. |
| Notes: | The distribution of this species is still poorly known. It may be more widespread than records suggest. |
| Derivation of specific name: | pulchella: beautiful |
| Habitat: | In grassland and Brachystegia woodland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 2000 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Border Mts of Mozambique and Zimbabwe but also on the Central Watershead Plateau near Harare. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,E |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 80. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 44. Venter, H.J.T. (2009). A Taxonomic revision of Raphionacme (Apocynaceae: Periplocoideae) South African Journal of Botany 75(2) Pages 333 - 335. |
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