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Crepidorhopalon goetzei
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Picture: Bart Wursten
Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Lake Kaulime, Nyika National Park
Picture: Petra Ballings
Below Dam 2, Nyika National Park.
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| Synonyms: |
Craterostigma goetzei Engl. Torenia brevifolia Engl. & Pilg. Torenia goetzei (Engl.) Hepper |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Straggling, creeping or ascending perennial herb, branched from base; stems 10–65 cm long, quadrangular, hairless throughout, lower internodes short, lengthening above. Leaves opposite, sessile, ovate to ovate-oblong, 5–28 mm long, 3–5-veined, hairless but pellucid-punctate beneath; margin subentire, crenate or shallowly obscurely toothed. Flowers few in lax, spike-like raceme, in axil of one of opposite pair of bracts. Pedicels 1–2 mm long. Calyx 5-7.5 mm long, tube hairless, markedly winged along major veins; lobes broadly triangular, 1–1.5 mm long, shortly ciliate-pubescent. Corolla blue, violet or purple, 10.5–16 mm long, shortly glandular-pilose outside, upper lip broadly ovate, subentire, lower lip clearly trilobed; throat and palate with orange-brown hairs. Capsule ovoid, 5 mm long, with persistent style. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | goetzei: after Walter Goetze (1872-1899), German naturalist, explorer, photographer and collector of botanical and zoological specimens in Tanzania. |
| Habitat: | In bogs, marshes and on streamsides. |
| Altitude range: | 670 - 2255 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | N,C,E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | C |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Saturday 29 September 2018 |
| 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 265. (Includes a picture). Fischer, E. (1992). Systematik der afrikanischen Lindernieae (Scrophulariaceae) Tropische und subtropische Pflanzenwelt 81 Pages 161 - 165. (Includes a picture). Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 59. As Torenia goetzei Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 97. |
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