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| Date: | 09 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 172 |
| Determiner(s): | C Mannheimer |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: South of Schuckmannsburg:- marshy plain along river. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D2 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Herb; Notes: Straggling annual herb, up to 40 cm when in flower. Stems flaccid, trailing but terminally erect, green to pink-tinted with long white indumentum, older portions surrounded by old leaf bases. Leaves spirally arranged, simple, sessile; lamina narrowly ovate to elliptic, apex tapering, base amplexicaulate, dull yellow-green, margin entire, ciliate, densely pubescent with fine, white, adpressed hairs on both surfaces, midrib abaxially prominent, diverging into numerous veins in sheath, sheath conspicuously fringed, up to 16 x 3 cm. Flowers in dense terminal spikes (usually dichasia), 50 mm long, borne on peduncles 1 - 9 cm long, brown, densely pubescent; flowers minute, 5 mm long. Perianth segments 5, ovate, free, pale pink, 4 x 2 mm. Stamens 5. Ovary black, hard, ovoid. Floral bract brown, pubescent, conspicuously ciliate, ovate. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000,24.875000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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