Crepidorhopalon namuliensis I.Darbysh. & Eb.Fisch.

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Rocky seepage area below Namuli peak, Serra de Gurue

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb, with erect, scrambling or trailing 4-angled stems, up to 50 cm long or more, hairy with some hairs orange-tipped glandular. Leaves sessile, opposite, pairs set 10-22 mm apart along the stems, broadly ovate, 9–20 mm long, base rounded or shallowly cordate, margin serrate with 2–5 teeth per margin, 5-7-veined from the base; sparsely puberulous with glandular and eglandular hairs mainly on margin and main veins beneath and with sunken glands drying brown, especially beneath. Flowers axillary, solitary; bracts leaf-like, pedicels up to 6.5 mm long. Calyx 5–7.8 mm long, lobes lanceolate, longest 3.3–4.2 mm long, shortly glandular-pubescent. Corolla 13.5–16.5 mm long, whitish to purple on tube and upper lip, lower lip white or at most tinged pale blue, usually with a yellow patch in the mouth, glandular-puberulous outside, and with pale longer hairs on the upper lip. Capsule ellipsoid, to 7.5 mm long, brown, more or less equal in length to calyx or slightly shorter.
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Derivation of specific name:	namuliensis: of Mt Namuli in Mozambique, where this species is found.
Habitat:	Damp ground in montane grassland.
Altitude range:	1730 - 1870 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Only known from Mt Namuli (Sera de Gurue) in Mozambique.
Mozambique distribution:	Z
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Endemic status:	Endemic
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Content last updated:	Sunday 20 October 2019
Literature:	Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 89. Darbyshire, I., Wursten, B., Luke, Q. & Fischer, E. (2019). A revision of the Crepidorhopalon whytei complex (Linderniaceae) in eastern Africa Blumea 64 Pages 169 - 171. Protologue (Includes a picture).

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