Buchnera prorepens Eckl. & Gilg

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Habit
Dry dambo grassland
Shiwa N'gandu Distr
Feb 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

Dry dambo grassland
Shiwa N'gandu Distr
Feb 2022
Photo: Nick Wightman

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Frequency:	Occasional
Status:	Native
Description:	Annual or perennial herb; stem many, prostrate, arising from woody taproot usually much branched, terete, subglabrous to short or long pilose; lower leaves 14-42 x 5-12 mm, opposite, obovate, narrowing into petiole-like base, margin entire to minute dentate; upper leaves bract-like; flowers pedicellate, solitary in axils of leaf-like bracts throughout greater part of stem; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long; bracts 6-10 x 1.75-3.5 mm, oblong-lanceolate to obovate or elliptic, margins entire to minutely dentate; calyx (4.5)6-7.5(11) mm long, obscurely 10-ribbed, 5-lobed, pilose below with long white hairs, lobes (1.5)3.5-5 x (0.5)0.8-1 mm; corolla blue, mauve to purple; tube 7-10 mm long, straight except for curved base; limb 5.5-8.5 mm in diameter; lobes 2.5-4 x 1.5-3.8 mm, circular to broadly obovate, unequal; capsule c. 4 x 2.8-3.8 mm, obovoid-cylindrical to subcircular.
Type location:	Angola
Notes:	Red Data list status: Widespread; not threatened
Derivation of specific name:	prorepens: referring to the creeping or prostrate nature of growth.
Habitat:	Well drained soils in grassland, open woodland and rocky hillsides.
Altitude range:	950 - 1590 m
Flowering time:	Oct - Jan
Worldwide distribution:	Angola into Zambia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca):	B,N,W,C,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	Nw,Mc,C,S,W
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Endemic status:	Near Endemic
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 17 May 2022
Literature:	Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Pages 98 - 99.

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Buchnera prorepens
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