Sesamum triphyllum Welw. ex Asch.
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Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
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Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
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Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
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Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River
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Near the viewing platform, Masuma Dam, Hwange NP
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Chipinda Pools, Gonarezhou National Park.
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Kwando core area, Bwabwata National Park
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Road from Katima Mulilo to Zambian border, sideroad
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B8 to Ngoma
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B8 to Ngoma
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C8, about 32 km West of Katima Mulilo
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Road from Katima Mulilo to Zambian border, sideroad
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Hainaveld, Ngamiland East
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Hainaveld, Ngamiland East
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Hainaveld, Ngamiland East
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Hainaveld, Ngamiland East
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Sesamum gibbosum Bremek. & Oberm.
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Native |
Description:
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Erect annual herb, 25-200 cm. Leaves opposite, mostly 3-foliolate, upper leaves often simple; leaflets long and narrow, terminal leaflet longest. Extra-floral nectaries normally single. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf axils, mauve with a darker purple centre. Fruit a more or less oblong capsule, c. 40 × 6 mm, erect with an apical beak 6-8mm long, distinctly bent outwards. |
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triphyllum: leaves with 3 leaflets or lobes |
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In grassland and along roadsides. |
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Southern Angola, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. |
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Literature:
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Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 184. (Includes a picture).
Ihlenfeldt, H.-D. (1988). Pedaliaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(3) Page 105. (Includes a picture).
Kirby, G. (2013). Wild Flowers of Southeast Botswana Struik Nature, Cape Town South Africa Page 290. (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 66.
Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 92.
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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: Species information: Sesamum triphyllum. https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=152570, retrieved 27 April 2024
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