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Prostrate to ascending herb. Stems up to 50 cm long, densely coverered in spreading whitish hairs. Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate-rhomboid, hairy on both surfaces; margin crenate. Flowers in a dense terminal spike. Calyx green with upper lip tinged blue-purple. Corolla whitish. |
Notes: | The species in image 1&2 (Wursten 92) appears to be the same as an unidentified specimen at SRGH from the same area (Leach & Schelpe 11487). Any assistance in providing a name for this would be very much appreciated. |
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Altitude range: | 1160 - 1280 m |
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Mozambique distribution: | Z (other?) |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: | Sunday 3 June 2012 |
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