Ecbolium clarkei Hiern
var. puberulum Vollesen

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Temane, Inhassoro District

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial herb with 1-several stems growing from a woody rootstock. Stems often bluish-green, finely velvety when young. Leaves opposite, sessile or with a short petiole, up to 3 mm, ovate-elliptic-pandurate, with or without small basal sagittate lobes, up to 15 × 6 cm, bluish-green, finely velvety on both surfaces, cordate or auriculate and clasping the stem at the base; margin entire. Inflorescences in spikes, 3-21 cm long, with ovate, overlapping bracts, often covered with many small stalked glands. Corolla turquoise-green; tube 2-2.7 cm long, lower lip with 3 spreading lobes; mid-lobe largest, up to 15 × 8 mm; upper lip linear, 8-12 mm long, erect, bifid. Capsule 17-22 mm long, finely velvety.
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Habitat:	In mopane woodland, often on rocky slopes, in river valleys, edges of pans and in riverine forest.
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Worldwide distribution:	Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe (var. clarkei occurs also in Malawi).
Mozambique distribution:	GI
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Content last updated:	Monday 29 August 2016
Literature:	Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 240 - 242. (Includes a picture). 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 14.

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