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Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Annual twining herb. Leaves: petiole long, up to 5 cm, slender; lamina 2.5-7.5 × 2.4-6.5 cm, ovate in outline with a cordate base, sparsely pubescent above and beneath; margin with 2 or 3 triangular lobes on each side of the basal half. Flowers in 1-2-flowered cymes; peduncle 6-10 mm long; pedicels stouter than the peduncle. Sepals 7 mm long, 3-nerved, spathulate with an ovate apical part; basal part linear-oblong. Corolla 2.5 cm long, almost salver-shaped, white. Capsule globose, glabrous. Seeds with long hairs at the edges. |
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Derivation of specific name:
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simonsiana: named for Simons who collected the type at Lake Malawi |
Habitat:
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Savanna, thicket, grassland, lake-shore and rocky soil. |
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Worldwide distribution:
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Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe |
Mozambique distribution:
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T,MS |
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Content last updated: |
Wednesday 30 August 2017 |
Literature:
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Gonçalves, M.L. (1987). Convolvulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(1) Pages 109 - 110.
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 37.
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