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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
A perennial climber with one to few stems growing from a spindle-shaped tuber, up to 30 cm diameter. Stems up to at least 2 m long, finely velvety. Leaves more or less narrowly obovate or ovate, finely velvety or hairless above, finely velvety beneath; petiole 1–15 mm long. Inflorescences sub-terminal, 7–30-flowered, finely velvety; peduncles 5–25 mm long; pedicels 2–6 mm long. Sepals ovate, 2–4 mm long, finely velvety, outside. Corolla green, finely velvety outside, hairless inside; tube campanulate, 2–3 mm long; lobes reflexed, oblong-ovate to ovate, 5–7 mm long, yellow-green with reddish to purple triangular spot at base. Corona lobes tri-partite, white; central segment 4–10 mm long, filiform with dilated base, apex tortuose, papillose; lateral segments 2–3 mm long. Follicles paired, seldom solitary, cylindrical-ovoid, 5–10 cm long, pendulous, puberulous. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | flanaganii: after Henry Flanagan (1861-1919), South African farmer and plant collector who left his private botanical garden and herbarium to the South African state in his will. |
| Habitat: | In Acacia savanna, dry forest or along forested streambanks on clay or sandy soils. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape South Africa. |
| Mozambique distribution: | M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Pages 34 - 36. |
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