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Date: | 9 Feb 1988 |
Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
Collector(s): | GL Maggs 164 |
Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
Confirmer(s): | |
Herbarium: | WIND |
Habitat: | |
Location: | Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: S. of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river. |
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Outing code: | |
Planted code: | Not planted |
Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D2 |
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Altitude (metres): | 0 |
Notes: | Herb; Notes: Tall, lanky herb, up to 1.5 m high. Stem erect, rigid, terete, green with fine, white indumentum. Leaves alternate, simple; lamina narrowly ovate to lanceolate, apex acute, base rounded, margin irregularly dentate, 75-100 x 15-25 mm, dull olive-green with scabrid indumentum on both surfaces, venation abaxially prominent, 3-veined from base; petiole 5-8 mm long, green, densely pubescent. Flowers usually solitary (although 2 buds are normally formed/axillary), axillary but concentrated terminally, large, 35 mm in diameter, showy. Petals 5, free, obovate, cream-white, crinkled. Sepals 5, fused, ovate, olive-green and densely pubescent, persistent. Epicalyx segments directly beneath calyx, narrowly linear, up to 5 x 0.5 mm, densely pubescent, persistent. Stamens in central column, 10-12 mm long; pollen golden yellow. Fruit: a capsule, 5-lobed, somewhat inflated, discoidal, 1 cm in diameter, pubescent especially along central rib of each lobe; borne on stalk up to 3 cm long. |
Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.875000 |
Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |