Sopubia karaguensis Oliv.
var. karaguensis
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along track towards Nganda Hill, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along track towards Nganda Hill, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along track towards Nganda Hill, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along track towards Nganda Hill, Nyika National Park
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Synonyms:
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Sopubia fastigiata Hiern Sopubia welwitschii Engl. var. micrantha Engl.
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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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. |
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Habitat:
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In damp ground in grassland. |
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Up to 2350 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
Malawi distribution:
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N,C |
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Spot characters:
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Content last updated: |
Saturday 11 May 2019 |
Literature:
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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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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2024).
Flora of Malawi: Species information: Sopubia karaguensis var. karaguensis. https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=151920, retrieved 21 May 2024
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