Chironia gratissima S. Moore

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Tsetsera Mountains

Photo: Bart Wursten
Below top ridge "Mte Chimanimani", West of Mevumodzi Valley at Eastern Lakes, Chimanimani Mts.

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Status:	Native
Description:	Trailing or scrambling annual or perennial herb up to c. 150 cm tall. Stem 4-ridged, branched. Leaves opposite along the stem, more or less narrowly ovate-triangular, up to 9 × 3 cm, pale yellow-green, conspicuously 3-veined. Flowers in 2-3-flowered cymes, together forming lax terminal panicles, bright mauve, magenta-pink or purple, 3-4 cm in diameter. Anthers yellow, twisted. Fruit a cylindric-ovoid capsule, c. 18 × 5 mm.
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Habitat:	In damp soil, along streambanks or among rocks.
Altitude range:	1150 - 2100 m
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Mozambique distribution:	MS
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Content last updated:	Sunday 3 July 2016
Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 13. 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 36. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 92.

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