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Common names: | African bittercress (English) | |
Description: | Slender perennial herb, 40-60 cm. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets up to 4 × 3 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sparsely hairy; apex pointed to rounded; margin crenate-dentate. Flowers in corymbose racemes, white to greenish, c. 6 mm in diameter. Fruit a straight, linear siliqua, 25-45 mm, flattened, tapering gradually. Seeds ellipsoid, flattened, brownish. | |
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Derivation of specific name: | africana: African | |
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Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in mountainous areas of Tropical and South Africa. Also in India and Brazil | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
Literature: |
Exell, A.W. (1960). Brassicaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Page 189. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 30. |
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