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Dissotis gilgiana
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Habit
Miombo woodland
Mwinilunga, Mwinilunga District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Mwinilunga, Mwinilunga District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Miombo woodland
Mwinilunga, Mwinilunga District
Oct 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
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| Synonyms: |
Dissotis wildemaniana Gilg ex Engl. Pyrotis gilgiana (De Wild.) Ver.-Lib. & R.D.Stone |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
A perennial herb up to 45 cm tall (usually shorter) with numerous stems sometimes forming a dense clump arising from a woody rootstock. Stems upright, simple or few-branched, distinctly 4-gonous, green, sparsely setose with short bristles bulbous at the base; internodes up to 10 cm long. Leaves opposite, scattered; lamina 1·5–3·5 x 0·8–3 cm., elliptic or ovate to subcircular, attenuate at the base into an indistinct petiole or contracted into a petiole up to 8 mm. long, acute or obtuse at the apex, crenulate at the margin, longitudinally 3–5(7)-nerved, the longitudinal nerves slightly impressed above, prominent beneath. Flowers 5–6(7)-merous, in 3-flowered cymes, rarely solitary, arranged in subcorymbiform inflorescences or in leafy panicles up to 10 cm long. Receptacle c. 6–8 mm. long, subhemispherical or subcam-panulate, green to deep red, appressed-setose (bristles sparse to somewhat dense, short, whitish). Sepals 5–7 x 2·5–3·5 mm, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, red, dorsally appressed-seiose, ciliolate at margin. Petals c. 2 cm long, pale mauve to bright pink. Fructiferous receptacle 6–8 x 7–8 mm, subhemispherical. Capsule slightly shorter than the receptacle, spherical, setose at the apex. |
| Type location: |
DRC |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | gilgiana: names after Ernest Friedrich Gilg, a German botanist and Curator at the Botanical Museum in Berlin. |
| Habitat: | In dambos, vegetation fringing riparian ‘mushitus’ and sometimes in Brachystegia-Julbernardia woodlands. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Oct - Nov |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Angola and Zambia |
| National distribution: | W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw |
| Growth form(s): | Perennial. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Wednesday 8 January 2025 |
| Literature: |
Fernandes, R. & A. (1961). Contribution to the knowledge of the MELASTOMATOIDEAE of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Kirkia 1 Page 74. Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Melastomataceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Page 259. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Dissotis gilgianaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Dissotis gilgiana
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Dissotis gilgiana
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Dissotis gilgiana
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iNaturalist: Dissotis gilgiana
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Dissotis gilgiana
JSTOR Plant Science: Dissotis gilgiana
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Dissotis gilgiana
Plants of the World Online: Dissotis gilgiana
Tropicos: Dissotis gilgiana
Wikipedia: Dissotis gilgiana
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