Samolus valerandi L.
var. valerandi

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Picture: Bart Wursten
Chisekera Springs, Chiredzi.

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Status:	Native
Description:	Erect annual herb, up to 50 cm tall. Leaves mostly in a basal rosette, fleshy, spathulate, up to 10 cm long; leaves along the stem much smaller and decreasing in size, becoming bract-like. Flowers in many-flowered racemes. Corolla c. 2 mm long, white with broadly spathulate lobes. Capsule globose, c. 3 mm long, dehiscent; valves strongly reflexed after opening.
Type location:	England, Sweden and Africa
Notes:	Zimbabwean records of Samolus valerandi have been named var. valerandi. The variety of the Zambian plants is not known but we have provisionally also placed them under var. valerandi.
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Habitat:	On stream banks and in swamps, growing at water level.
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Worldwide distribution:	A near cosmopolitan species.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	N
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Content last updated:	Friday 6 March 2015
Literature:	Kupicha, F.K. (1983). Primulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 196 - 197. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 69. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 85. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 94.

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