Gnidia mollis C.H. Wright
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Luwawa Forest Reserve, Viphya, Mzimba.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Luwawa Forest Reserve, Viphya, Mzimba.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Luwawa Forest Reserve, Viphya, Mzimba.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Luwawa Forest Reserve, Viphya, Mzimba.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Luwawa Forest Reserve, Viphya, Mzimba.
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Synonyms:
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Gnidia wittei Staner
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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Slender shrub, up to 1.6 m high, branching above the middle. Branches densely pubescent when young, hairless when older, reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, held stiffly erect, elliptic, to narrowly ovate or obovate, 12-19 mm long, densely ciliate and rather shaggy pubescent beneath when young. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, 50-100-flowered, 20-25 mm in diameter. Each inflorescence consisting of numerous smaller heads, up to 15-flowered, surrounded by 4-5 membranous hairy green to reddish bracts. Flowers 4-merous, white, pale yellow or tinged pinkish. Pedicels minute with soft hairs up to 6 mm long. Tube 8-12 mm long, densely shaggy hairy above. |
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Derivation of specific name:
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mollis: soft, referring to the densely velvety hairy look of this species. |
Habitat:
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Often in wet grasslands, bogs and dambos, more rarely on dry hillsides. |
Altitude range: |
900 - 1900 m |
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Worldwide distribution:
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DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. |
Malawi distribution:
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Endemic status:
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Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: |
Sunday 10 March 2019 |
Literature:
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Peterson, B. (updated by Verdcourt, B.) (2006). Thymelaeaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Pages 103 - 104.
Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 101.
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-23
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2023).
Flora of Malawi: Species information: Gnidia mollis. https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=176320, retrieved 30 January 2023
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