Sopubia karaguensis Oliv.
var. karaguensis

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Picture: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park

Picture: Bart Wursten
Along track towards Nganda Hill, Nyika National Park

Habit
Dambo margin in damp muck soil
Near Muzuma Village, Mutondo, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Inflorescence
Dambo margin in damp muck soil
Near Muzuma Village, Mutondo, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

Flower
Dambo margin in damp muck soil
Near Muzuma Village, Mutondo, Kaoma Distr.
Mar 2021
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Synonyms:	Sopubia fastigiata Hiern Sopubia welwitschii Engl. var. micrantha Engl.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Erect robust perennial or undershrub to 1 m, pubescent to tomentose. Leaves 15-40 mm, opposite to subwhorled, simple to 3-fid or 5-fid with segments 1-1.5 mm wide; margin thickened. Inflorescence 5-20 mm, spike-like, simple or much-branched, relatively lax with the axis visible between the whorls. Flowers pink, mauve to purple. Bracteoles narrowly linear. Calyx 6-11 × c. 4-5 mm; lobes 3-9.5 mm, calyx not apparently inflated or enlarged, densely tomentose on the outside. Corolla 15-22 mm in diameter. Capsule glabrous, spherical to broadly ovoid.
Type location:	Uganda
Notes:	See also var. macrocalyx.
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Habitat:	In damp ground in grassland.
Altitude range:	Up to 2200 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	N,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	S
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Content last updated:	Monday 17 May 2021
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 268. 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 78. Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Pages 147 - 149. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 98.

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