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Equilabium acaule
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Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeza road, Nyika National Park
Picture: Bart Wursten
Along track to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park.
Picture: Bart Wursten
Along track to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park.
Picture: Bart Wursten
Along track to Chozi View Point, Nyika National Park.
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| Synonyms: |
Plectranthus acaulis Brummitt & Seyani |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Suffrutex with a very short stem arising from a woody tuber, not aromatic. Leaves usually 4 in a basal rosette, flat on the ground, sessile, large, broadly ovate or elliptic, 10-30 cm long, pubescent and with reddish sessile glands; margin often more or less deeply bicrenate. Inflorescence branching above, fairly lax with 6-flowered verticils. Calyx 3-4 mm long, purplish, densely hairy and with red sessile glands. Corolla reddish-purple, 11-14 mm long, sparsely pubescent and with reddish sessile glands; tube 6-7 mm long; both lips of equal length, 6-7 mm long. |
| Type location: |
Malawi |
| Notes: | |
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| Habitat: | Montane grassland, sometimes near forest margins. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Only known from Mt Waller and Nyika Plateau, Malawi and Zambia. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | E |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Mc |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Vulnerable |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Monday 18 March 2019 |
| 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 187. as Plectranthus acaulis (Includes a picture). Paton, A.J. et al. (2013). Lamiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(8) Pages 227 - 228. as Plectranthus acaulis Paton, A.J., Mwanyambo, M., Govaerts, R.H.A., Smitha, K., Suddee, S., Phillipson, P.B., Wilson, T.C., Forster, P.I., Culham, A. (2019). Nomenclatural changes in Coleus and Plectranthus (Lamiaceae): a tale of more than two genera Phytokeys 129 Page 112. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 70. as Plectranthus acaulis Willis, C.K., Burrows, J.E., Fish, L., Phiri, P.S.M., Chikuni, A.C. & Golding, J. (2001). Developing a greater understanding of the flora of the Nyika Syst. Geogr. Pl. 71(2) Page 1000. as Plectranthus acaulis |
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