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| Date: | 10 May 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 440 |
| Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
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| Location: | Caprivi: 30 Km south of Katima Mulilo on Bukalo Road. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D1 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Creeper; Notes: Woody creeper. Young branchlets with dense, short, white, woolly indumentum, terete to angled and ribbed. Leaves spirally arranged, simple; Petiole stout, adaxially grooved, densely pulverulent, up to 10 mm long; lamina ovate to cordiform, ca. 60 x 45 mm, broadly tapering to acute apex, base rounded to cordate (narrowly curate down petiole), adaxially olive green, minutely / sparsely pubescent; adaxially silvery, venation prominent, densely pubescent. Capitula in scorpioid cymes ( = corymbs), ellipsoid, ca. 15 x 8 mm, homogenous, disc florets 10 - 12 mm long, 5 - merous. Stigma 5-branched, well-exerted. Pappus prominent, white, straight, about 10 mm long. Involucral bract 4-6-whorled, lanceolate-ovate, green, foliaceous with white, arachnoid pubescence. Growing in forest island on termite mound. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000,24.625000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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