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| Synonyms: |
Sebaea mirabilis Gilg Sebaea pratensis Gilg Sebaea saccata Schinz |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Erect annual herb 5–20 cm. tall. Stem slender unbranched or branched from the base, sometimes glandular or glandular denticulate in the lower part. Leaves linear-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–10 mm long, the lower ones reduced and scale-like. Flowers yellow, solitary or in few to many-flowered heads, on pedicels 1–1.5 mm long. Corolla tube 3–5 mm long; lobes 5–8 mm long. Fruit an ovoid capsule c. 3 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | bojeri: after Wenceslas Bojer (1795/1797-1856), Czech naturalist, horticulturist and botanist at the Imperial Museum at Vienna who collected extensively in Mauritius, Madagascar, Comoro Islands and on the East coast of Africa. |
| Habitat: | In open woodland |
| Altitude range: | 1500 - 2300 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Madagascar. |
| Malawi distribution: | N |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| 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 176. 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 53. Paiva, J. & Nogueira, I. (1990). Gentianaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(4) Page 12. |
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