Dicliptera carvalhoi Lindau
subsp. carvalhoi

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Nhabawe Village, lower Chimanimani Mts

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Nhahomba area, Chimanimani National Park.

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Synonyms:	Dicliptera angustifolia Gilli Dicliptera cephalantha S. Moore Dicliptera olitoria Mildbr. Dicliptera rogersii Turrill
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Status:	Native
Description:	Annual or perennial herb, sometimes scrambling, with stems up to 1.5 m long. Leaves sometimes immature or absent at time of flowering, ovate to linear-lanceolate, 1-8 cm long, rarely longer, pubescent mainly on midrib an margins. Inflorescences aggregated into a dense cylindric or subcapitate head. Bracts dark, often tinged purple, more or less unequal, oblong-oblanceolate to lanceolate, 5.5-16 mm long, with sparse to dense capitate glandular hairs towards the apex; margin and midrib often hairy; margin hyaline towards the base. Calyx lobes 2.5-5 mm long, glandular-puberulent, sometimes with a few hairs along the margin. Corolla 10-20 mm long, pink, purple or white, with purple guidelines, pubescent outside; tube 6-10.5 mm long; upper lip oblong, 6-11.5 mm long; lower lip obovate or elliptic, 6-10.5 mm long. Capsule 4.5-8mm long, finely velvety and sometimes with short glandular hairs towards the apex.
Notes:	No less than 5 subspecies have been described. Apart from subsp. carvalhoi two more, subsp. nemorum (Milne-Redh.) I. Darbysh. and subsp. laxiflora I. Darbysh. have been recorded from Mozambique.
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Habitat:	In Miombo woodland, rough grassland, on rocky hillsides and along streams or in rock streambeds.
Altitude range:	1000 - 1800 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Eastern DRC, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Mozambique distribution:	T,MS
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Content last updated:	Saturday 10 July 2021
Literature:	Champluvier, D. (1985). Acanthaceae Flore du Rwanda Spermatophytes Volume III Page 452. as D. rogersii (Includes a picture). Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 277 - 278. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 18. As Dicliptera rogersii

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