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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb with a woody vertical rootstock. Stems erect, slender, up to 45 cm. long, with several erect shoots tufted, somewhat zigzag at the apex. Leaf lamina very variable in shape and size, linear oblong, linear-lanceolate, up to largely lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 3–12·5 × 0·3–3 cm., largely acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, greyish-pubescent, more so beneath; petiole 1–3 mm. long. Inflorescences numerous, axillary, 1–4-flowered; peduncle 0–1·6 cm. long, greyish-pubescent; pedicels 4–9 mm. long; bracts 1·5–5·5 mm. long, subobtuse at the apex, mucronulate; outer ones greyish-pubescent, inner ones with hyaline margin. Corolla tubular-funnel-shaped, white tinged with mauve, 2·8–3·7 cm. long; tube cylindric; limb infundibuliform. Capsule globose, glabrous. Seeds minutely pubescent. From FZ, Vol 8, Part 1, page 9, (1987) Author: Maria Leonor Gonçalves |
| Type location: |
Zambia |
| Notes: | Red data status: VU D2 |
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| Habitat: | Woodland on rock outcrops |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1200 - 1300 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Not known elsewhere |
| National distribution: | W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Vulnerable |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 96 - 97. Verdcourt, B. (1967). New Convolvulaceae from the Flora Zambesiaca area-II Kirkia 6(1) Pages 117 - 118. Protologue |
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