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Ardisiandra wettsteinii
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Cloudlands layby, Vumba
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Cloudlands layby, Vumba
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Cloudlands layby, Vumba
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Along path to Mtarazi Falls, Nyanga.
Picture: Bart Wursten
Along path to Mtarazi Falls, Nyanga.
Picture: Bart Wursten
Along path to Mtarazi Falls, Nyanga.
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| Synonyms: |
Arsidiandra orientalis Weim. Arsidiandra stolzii Weim. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
CCreeping perennial herb. All vegetative parts with long hairs. Stems reddish-purple, up to 1 m, partly prostrate, rooting at the nodes. Leaves on long petioles, broadly ovate to suborbicular in outline with 3-9 crenate lobes; margins toothed. Flowers in few-flowered racemes on stalks 1.5-2.5 cm long, drooping. Corolla 6-8 mm, white to pale pink or lilac about twice as long as the calyx. Fruit a small transparent capsule, indehiscent. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
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| Habitat: | In shade on the forest floor. |
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| Flowering time: | Jan - Feb |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 229. (Includes a picture). Kupicha, F.K. (1983). Primulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 185 - 186. (Includes a picture). 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 68. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 85. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 97. |
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