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| Date: | 24 Jul 1985 |
| Recorder(s): | SE Chadwick |
| Collector(s): | SE Chadwick 154 |
| Determiner(s): | MJAW Crosby |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
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| Location: | Botswana: Linyanti Camp, Chobe Park. Near Linyanti Swamp, Siameisso. Dark grey sandy soil, loose and fine. 50 m from Linyanti Swamp. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Botswana |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1823B4 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Shrub; Notes: Well-drained. Small spreading shrub to 30 cm. Hairy stem and leaves with sticky glandstalks on calyx. Stem ridged with 3 brown recurved thorns at nodes. 1 Thorn at each leaf node. Leaves opposite. 2 - 3 branches from each node, opposite. Flowers bright orange - petals with yellow bases. Stamens cream, becoming red near anther. Stigma red, bilobed. Fruit green, shiny, with hairs. Fruit becoming red-brown. Up to 4 septal in fruit, with one seed in each loculus. Calyx persistent in fruit. Many amber-yellow ants walking over stem. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -18.375000, 23.875000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 2 |