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Barleria hydeana
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Photo: Penny English
Mazuri farm dam wall
Photo: Penny English
Mazuri farm dam wall
Photo: Penny English
Mazuri farm dam wall
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| Frequency: | Local and scarce |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shrubby herb covered in short and long hairs and sticky glandular pubescence. Leaves subsessile, oblong-elliptic, up to 2 cm long, mucronate at the apex, with long pale-buff hairs above, on the margin and on the veins beneath, elsewhere beneath with short hairs and sometimes glandular. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, densely sticky glandular; peduncle 10-16 mm long; bracteoles spine-like, 13-19 mm long. Calyx with larger lobes oblong-obovate to obovate-elliptic, 10-16 mm long; margin sub-entire or sometimes with 2-6 prominent spiny teeth, densely short glandular-pubescent. Lateral lobes linear-lanceolate, 7-12 mm long. Corolla 2.5-3.5 cm long, pubescent and glandular outside; tube whitish outside, yellowish inside. Lobes pink with 3 larger lobes 15-17 mm long and 2 upper lobes greatly reduced, triangular up to 5 mm long. Capsule 18-19 mm long, hairless except for an apical tuft. |
| Notes: | Its specialised and very restricted distribution likely makes this species Vulnerable |
| Derivation of specific name: | hydeana: named after Mark Hyde, co-author, editor of this Online Flora of Zimbabwe, who collected the type specimen. |
| Habitat: | Wooded grassland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1250 - 1500 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Only known from a small area in the Midlands of Zimbabwe. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | C |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Data deficient |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Saturday 23 June 2018 |
| Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 60 - 61. |
Other sources of information about Barleria hydeana:
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Barleria hydeanaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Barleria hydeana
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Barleria hydeana
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Barleria hydeana
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Barleria hydeana
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Barleria hydeana
JSTOR Plant Science: Barleria hydeana
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Barleria hydeana
Plants of the World Online: Barleria hydeana
Tropicos: Barleria hydeana
Wikipedia: Barleria hydeana
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