Crepidorhopalon droseroides Eb.Fisch., Wursten & I.Darbysh.

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Swanepoel Concession, Cheringoma

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Frequency:	Rare and local
Status:	Native
Description:	Annual herbs, up to 13–15 mm tall. Leaves, stems, pedicels and calyx densely covered with up to 0.34–0.4 mm long capitate sticky glandular hairs. Stems erect, quadrangular, up to 13 mm long, up to 0.32 mm in diameter. Leaves sessile, lamina broadly ovate, acuminate at apex, 3.7–4.56 × 2.9–3.55 mm, with entire margin, only midnerve visible. Inflorescence terminal, racemose, with 1–2 flowers borne in axils of leaf-like bracts. Bracts ovate, acute, 2.85–2.92 × 1.4–1.55 mm. Pedicel 2.93–5.16 mm long. Calyx 5-lobed, campanulate, glandular-pubescent, 1.85–2.1 mm long, lobes acute, 1.8–2.05 mm long, margins entire. Corolla up to 4 mm long, white with four bluish marks on lower lip at throat and yellow globose hairs of c. 0.05 mm length on a multicellular base, tube 2.9 mm long, inside with dense glandular hairs at base of staminal veins, upper lip with 2 acute lobes up to 0.15 mm long, 1.4 × 1.2 mm, inside with scattered glandular hairs, lower lip tripartite, up to 3.1 mm long, middle lobe 2.3–2.5 × 1.7–1.8 mm, rounded-obtuse, margin minutely fringed, lateral lobes 1.8–2 × 1–1.1 mm, rounded-obtuse. Stamens 4, filaments of the abaxial pair 1.5 mm long, with basal rounded deep yellow spur-like bosses up to 0.15 mm long covered by short glandular hairs, with 0.35–0.37 mm long rounded anthers, filaments of adaxial pair 0.7 mm long, with obtuse anthers 0.37 mm long. Ovary 1.2–1.5 × 0.7 mm, with straight to slightly curved, filiform style, 2.5 mm long, glabrous. Capsule and seeds not known.
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Derivation of specific name:	droseroides: like a Drosera, referring to the densely, sticky glandular and insect catching habit of these plants.
Habitat:	Growing on open black cotton soil in a seasonally dry dambo area in miombo woodland dominated by Brachystegia spiciformis.
Altitude range:	240 m (approx)
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Worldwide distribution:	So far only known from the type location in Cheringoma, Mozambique.
Mozambique distribution:	MS
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Endemic status:	Endemic
Red data list status:	Data deficient
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Content last updated:	Tuesday 18 July 2023
Literature:	Fischer, E., Wursten, B. & Darbyshire, I. (2023). A new and possibly carnivorous species of Crepidorhopalon (Linderniaceae) from Mozambique Phytotaxa 603(2) Pages 191 - 198. Protologue (Includes a picture).

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Crepidorhopalon droseroides
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