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Polygala wilmsii
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Upper ridge Mt Shangani, eastern Chimanimani Mts.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Upper ridge Mt Shangani, eastern Chimanimani Mts.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Upper ridge Mt Shangani, eastern Chimanimani Mts.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Upper ridge Mt Shangani, eastern Chimanimani Mts.
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herb with erect or decumbent annual stems up to 25 cm, growing from a woody rootstock. Stems covered in long hairs. Leaves very narrowly oblong-elliptic, up to 20 mm long, laxly covered in long hairs. Flowers purple or purple and yellowish-green in congested or sub-capitate terminal racemes. Capsule c. 2.1 mm in diameter, almost round, hairless, slightly winged. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | wilmsii: named after Dr. Friedrich Heinrich Wilms (1848-1919), German apothecary, botanist and plant collector in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga. |
| Habitat: | In submontane grassland. |
| Altitude range: | 800 - 2140 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Mpumalanga, South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 19 March 2015 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 45. Exell, A.W. (1960). Polygalaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Page 318. 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 68. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 97. |
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