Hermannia kirkii Mast.

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Near Shashe Wilderness Camp, Shashe River

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Synonyms:	Hermannia filipes Harv. var. elatior K. Schum. Hermannia holubii Burtt Davy Hermannia lugardii N.E. Br.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Erect annual herb, up to 60 cm. Stems and branches with glandular and longer simple hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, up to 4 × 1.6 cm, appressed stellate-hairy on both surfaces and sometimes glandular; margins serrate. Flowers drooping, solitary, axillary, orange-red, pink purplish or rarely almost white; peduncle up to 3.5 cm long, pubescent. Fruit a oblong-ovoid capsule, up to 8 × 7 cm, thinly stellate-pubescent, with spreading apical horns, up to 1.5 mm long.
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Derivation of specific name:	kirkii: named after Dr John Kirk, who accompanied David Livingstone on his Zambezi expedition of 1858
Habitat:	In dry open deciduous woodland, grassland margins of seasonal pans, sometimes as a weed of cultivation.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Limpopo, Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Mozambique distribution:	T,MS
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Content last updated:	Sunday 30 March 2008
Literature:	Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 143. (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 80. Wild, H. (1960-1). Sterculiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(2) Pages 547 - 548. (Includes a picture).

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