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Dicliptera carvalhoi
carvalhoi
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Cecil Kop NR
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Castleburn Cliffs, Vumba
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| Synonyms: |
Dicliptera angustifolia Gilli Dicliptera cephalantha S. Moore Dicliptera olitoria Mildbr. Dicliptera rogersii Turrill |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual or perennial herb, sometimes scrambling, with stems up to 1.5 m long. Leaves sometimes immature or absent at time of flowering, ovate to linear-lanceolate, 1-8 cm long, rarely longer, pubescent mainly on midrib an margins. Inflorescences aggregated into a dense cylindric or subcapitate head. Bracts dark, often tinged purple, more or less unequal, oblong-oblanceolate to lanceolate, 5.5-16 mm long, with sparse to dense capitate glandular hairs towards the apex; margin and midrib often hairy; margin hyaline towards the base. Calyx lobes 2.5-5 mm long, glandular-puberulent, sometimes with a few hairs along the margin. Corolla 10-20 mm long, pink, purple or white, with purple guidelines, pubescent outside; tube 6-10.5 mm long; upper lip oblong, 6-11.5 mm long; lower lip obovate or elliptic, 6-10.5 mm long. Capsule 4.5-8mm long, finely velvety and sometimes with short glandular hairs towards the apex. |
| Type location: |
Mozambique |
| Notes: | No less than 5 subspecies have been described. Apart from subsp. carvalhoi three more, subsp. nemorum (Milne-Redh.) I. Darbysh., subsp. laxiflora I. Darbysh. and subsp. petraea I. Darbysh. have been recorded from Mozambique. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In Miombo woodland, rough grassland, on rocky hillsides and along streams or in rock streambeds. |
| Altitude range: | Up to 1800 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | C,E,S |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | E,Lk,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Champluvier, D. (1985). Acanthaceae Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume III Page 452. as D. rogersii (Includes a picture). Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 277 - 278. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 18. As Dicliptera rogersii |
Other sources of information about Dicliptera carvalhoi subsp. carvalhoi:
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Flora of Burundi: Dicliptera carvalhoi subsp. carvalhoiFlora of the DRC: Dicliptera carvalhoi subsp. carvalhoi
Flora of Malawi: Dicliptera carvalhoi subsp. carvalhoi
Flora of Mozambique: Dicliptera carvalhoi subsp. carvalhoi
Flora of Rwanda: Dicliptera carvalhoi subsp. carvalhoi
Flora of Zimbabwe: Dicliptera carvalhoi subsp. carvalhoi
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Dicliptera carvalhoiBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Dicliptera carvalhoi
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Dicliptera carvalhoi
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Dicliptera carvalhoi
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iNaturalist: Dicliptera carvalhoi
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Dicliptera carvalhoi
JSTOR Plant Science: Dicliptera carvalhoi
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Dicliptera carvalhoi
Plants of the World Online: Dicliptera carvalhoi
Tropicos: Dicliptera carvalhoi
Wikipedia: Dicliptera carvalhoi
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