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| Synonyms: |
Walafrida swynnertonii S. Moore var. swynnertonii |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial herbs, up to 40 cm tall; stem slender, erect or scrambling, branches mostly scabrid-pubescent, ascending, slender, densely leafy. Leaves alternate or clustered, narrowly linear, 2–8(14) mm long, densely scabrid-pubescent. Inflorescences at ends of branches, in somewhat laxly branched heads. Bracts boat-shaped, c. 2 x 1.5 mm, ciliate, almost hairless to minutely hispid. Calyx 1–1.75 mm long, (2)3-lobed, lobes subequal, linear-oblong, obtuse, shortly ciliate, almost hairless. Corolla mauve to pinkish-mauve or white, 3–3.8 mm long, sparsely short-pubescent outside. |
| Notes: | See var. leiophylla for comparison. |
| Derivation of specific name: | swynnertonii: named after Charles Francis Massey Swynnerton (1877-1938), well-known naturalist, who first recorded and collected many species of flora and fauna in and around the Chirinda Forest |
| Habitat: | In (sub)montane grassland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Confined to the border mountains of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 50. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 177. Hilliard, O.M. (1999). The tribe Selagineae (Scrophulariaceae) Kew Publishing Pages 256 - 257. Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 148. 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 79. As Walafrida swynnertonii var. swynnertonii Under Selaginaceae Philcox, D. (1990). Scrophulariaceae Flora Zambesiaca 8(2) Page 166. as Walafrida swynnertonii swynnertonii |
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