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| Date: | 10 May 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 438 |
| Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi: 30 km south of Katima Mulilo on Bukalo road:- on banks of waterhole. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724C2 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Herb; Notes: Annual herb, up to 30 cm high but mostly shorter. Stem erect, somewhat square in cross section, yellow-green to deep maroon, glabrous, smooth. Leaves opposite, simple, subsessile; lamina lanceolate, 10-50 x 0.5-4 mm, apex acute, base hastate, margin entire but tends to involute, dull green to maroon, glabrous, smooth, slightly succulent, midrib prominent. Inflorescence an umbel, axillary, (2-) 3 (-5)- flowered. Flowers small, 2.5-3 mm in diameter. Calyx campanulate, 4-lobed. Petals purple, 4, free, broadly obovate. Stamens 4; filaments purple, slender, curved, 1.5-2 mm long: anthers yellow, subglobose. Style extended, ca. 3.5 mm long. Capsule globose, surrounded by persistent calyx. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.375000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 5 |