Stathmostelma fornicatum (N.E. Br.) Bullock
subsp. fornicatum

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Stathmostelma fornicatum subsp. fornicatum

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Close to Pemba town.

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Synonyms:	Asclepias fornicata N.E. Br.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with annual stems, growing from a large tuberous rootstock. Stem with milky latex, single, branching near the base, up to 60 cm tall, ascending or erect, hairless or minutely pubescent with short white hairs. Leaves opposite, linear, up to 8-20 cm long, minutely pubescent with stiff white hairs, particularly on the margin and the midrib. Flowers in terminal or extra-axillary 2-5-flowered erect umbels on a peduncle, up to 18 cm long. Corolla lobes spreading, greenish and hairless on the outside, chrome-yellow and minutely papillose inside. Corona lobes yellow or orange, erect, c. 1.5 times as tall as the column; lower margin extending with a tooth over the column; 1 or 2 small teeth present in the cavity of the corona lobes. Fruit a single follicle, fusiform, c. 11 × 0.6 cm, beaked, smooth, hairless when mature, erect on a straight pedicel.
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Derivation of specific name:	goetzei: after Walter Goetze (1872-1899), German naturalist, explorer, photographer and collector of botanical and zoological specimens in Tanzania.
Habitat:	In seasonally waterlogged grassy areas in mopane or Acacia woodland.
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Worldwide distribution:	Southern Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, just entering into Western Zimbabwe at Victoria Falls (Ncube 70).
Mozambique distribution:	N (other?)
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Content last updated:	Sunday 2 March 2014
Literature:	Binns, B. (1968). A First Check List of the Herbaceous Flora of Malawi The Government Printer, Zomba, Malawi Page 22. Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 73. (Includes a picture). Goyder, D.J. (1998). A revision of the African genus Stathmostelma K. Schum. Kew Bulletin 53 Pages 592 - 593. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 287 - 288. 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 22. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 29.

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