Details of record no: 94586

Acrotome angustifolia G. Taylor

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Record details:

Date: 10 Feb 1988
Recorder(s):GL Maggs
Collector(s):GL Maggs
198
Determiner(s):GL Maggs
Confirmer(s):
Herbarium:WIND
Habitat:
Location: Caprivi: Near Ngoma: in Terminalia sericea woodland.
Location code(s):
Outing code:
Planted code: Not planted
Country: Namibia (Caprivi Strip)
Quarter Degree Square: 1724D3
Grid reference:
FZ Divisions (Flora Zambesiaca):
Current administrative provinces:
Altitude (metres): 0
Notes: Herb; Notes: Annual herb, 30 - 50 cm high when in flower. Stems unbranched, 4-angled, green with dense, short, white adpressed indumentum. Leaves opposite, simple, subsessile; lamina narrowly elliptic, apex acute, base cuneate, margin irregularly dentate, 40-100 x 6-12 mm, dull yellow-green with dark green venation, with dense, short, white, hirsutellous indumentum becoming glabrate , aromatic. Flowers densely verticillate at apex in 1-2 whorls, bilabiate. Petals fused, cream-coloured. Sepals 5, free, linear, spine-tipped, densely pubescent, persistent. Stamens 2. Abundant in disturbed areas.
Latitude, Longitude: -17.875000, 24.625000
Location Accuracy Code: 4

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Individual record no: 94586: Acrotome angustifolia.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=94586, retrieved 18 April 2024

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