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Triumfetta sonderi sensu Eyles |
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Description: | Perennial herb c. 60 cm tall, branching from the base; stems stellate-hairy. Leaves elliptic, ovate-elliptic or lanceolate-oblong, up to 6 cm long, sparsely stellate-hairy with some simple hairs, on both surfaces, a little more densely so beneath, veins rather raised beneath; margin serrate or crenate-serrate; petiole up to 13 mm long, stellate-hairy; stipules subulate, c. 3 mm long, setose-hairy. Inflorescences leafy, of c. 2โ5 small clusters per node; peduncles and pedicels c. 3 mm long, pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, up to 2ยท5 mm long, forming an involucre, setose-hairy. Sepals reddish-brown, linear, 5 mm long, stellate-pubescent outside. Petals yellow, oblanceolate, c. 5 mm long, rounded at the apex, ciliate just above the base. Stamens 9โ10. Fruit c. 8 mm in diameter including the aculei; aculei broadening towards the base, shortly hairy, with 2โ5 spreading setae at the apex. | |
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Derivation of specific name: | angolensis: of Angola | |
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Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga South Africa. | |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. As Triumfetta sonderi 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 81. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 75. Wild, H. (1963). Tiliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 2(1) Page 71. |
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