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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial glabrous herb from a woody tuberous rootstock. Stems prostrate, slender, glutinous. Leaf-lamina rhomboid-lanceolate, 3–9 × 0·5–4 cm., acuminate or acute at the apex cuneate at the base, margin entire, sinuate or lobed, lobes linear or triangular, 3–20 × 1–2 mm., glabrous, thin, leathery, punctate, 6–8 palmatinervous, nerves prominent at the lower face; petiole 0·8–5·5 cm. long, canaliculate. Flowers axillary solitary; peduncle 3·7–5·5 cm. long; pedicels 0·5–1·2 cm. long slightly enlarged; bracts lanceolate, 5 mm. long. Sepals lanceolate, 1·5–1·8 cm. long, accrescent in fruit, acuminate, mucronulate, membranaceous, glabrous, glutinous. Corolla funnel-shaped, pale purple or pale mauve, 6 cm. long, glabrous. Capsule globose, coriaceous. Seeds ovoid, covered with shiny long fawn hairs. From FZ, Vol 8, Part 1, page 9, (1987) Author: Maria Leonor Gonçalves |
| Type location: |
Zambia |
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| Habitat: | Woodland, dambo margins and open sandveld. |
| Altitude range: | 1097 m (approx) |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Only Zambia and Botswana |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | S |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | S |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Lower Risk - least concern |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 102 - 103. (Includes a picture). Verdcourt, B. (1967). New Convolvulaceae from the Flora Zambesiaca area-II Kirkia 6(1) Page 119. Protologue (Includes a picture). |
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