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Habit
Margin of grassland and degraded Kalahari scrubland
Mangango, Kaoma District
Jan 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Margin of grassland and degraded Kalahari scrubland
Mangango, Kaoma District
Jan 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
Flower
Margin of grassland and degraded Kalahari scrubland
Mangango, Kaoma District
Jan 2024
Photo: Nick Wightman
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Perennial herb, growing from a woody rootstock. Stems several, prostrate, covered in short yellowish hairs. Leaves, up to 8 × 2.5 cm, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, rounded to subcordate at the base; margins and veins ciliate beneath. Flowers solitary, axillary. Corolla funnel-shaped, distinctly narrowed below, white to mauve with a darker purple centre. Capsule spherical, glabrous, tipped by the persistent style-base. |
Type location: |
Sudan |
Notes: | |
Derivation of specific name: | blepharophylla: with fringed leaves, referring to the ciliate margins. |
Habitat: | On sandy soils in woodland and grassland. |
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Worldwide distribution: | West Africa to Sudan, Ethiopa and south to Zimbabwe and Mozambique |
National distribution: | C |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 66 - 68. (Includes a picture). 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 36. |
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