Galium thunbergianum Eckl. & Zeyh.
var. hirsutum (Sond.) Verdc.

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Along Northern Loop road towards Nganda Hill, Nyika National Park

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Synonyms:	Galium biafrae Hiern Galium dasycarpum Schweinf. Galium rotundifolium var. hirsutum Sond.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb, growing from an extensive rhizome. Stems mostly creeping or climbing, sometimes suberect, up to c. 50 cm long, most parts more or less densely covered with spreading whit hairs(in this variety). Leaves in whorls of 4, elliptic to ovate, up to 22 × 10 mm, 3-veined; apex acute or with a short hyaline point; margin entire. Inflorescence broadly pyramidal or cylindric, many-flowered. Flowers 1.5-3 mm in diameter, greenish-white to yellowish. Fruit densely covered in white tuberculate hooked hairs.
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Derivation of specific name:	thunbergianum: named after Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1828); hirsutum: with spreading hairs, hirsute.
Habitat:	In damp, shady places along forest edges.
Altitude range:	1800 - 2350 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Disjunctly distributed in afromontane areas throughout tropical Africa and South Africa.
Malawi distribution:	N
Growth form(s):	Perennial.
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Content last updated:	Thursday 4 April 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 242. 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 72. Verdcourt, B. (1988). Rubiaceae, Part 1 Flora Zambesiaca 5(1) Pages 196 - 198.

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