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Ruspolia decurrens
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| Synonyms: |
Eranthemum decurrens Nees Eranthemum senense Klotzsch Pseuderanthemum decurrens (Nees) Radlk. Pseuderanthemum senense (Klotzsch) Radlk. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Scrambling or decumbent shrubby herb to 1 (-1.5) m tall with ascending flowering branches; plant drying green. Leaves opposite, ovate to elliptic, largest 5.5 - 17.5 cm long, abruptly narrowed below into a long decurrent base, hairless or sparsely hairy. Flowers solitary or in 3(-5)-flowered cymules forming unbranched cymes to 40 cm long; lower nodes in inflorescence to 1-4 cm long. Inflorescence axis finely hairy and with stalked capitate glands. Calyx 5-9 mm long, with hairs and stalked capitate glands. Corolla salmon-pink to orange-red with numerous darker spots towards the centre and on the outside of the lobes with long curly hairs but no stalked, capitate glands; tube linear, 1.8-2.8 cm long; lobes elliptic, 8-14 mm long. Capsule 2-3 cm long. Inner surface of the seed with irregular ridges. |
| Notes: | Although the specific name of this species refers to the decurrent leafbase, this is not a reliable identification characteristic as in fact both species in Malawi have decurrent leaf bases. |
| Derivation of specific name: | decurrens: decurrent, running down, referring to the leaf base running down the petiole. |
| Habitat: | In riverine forest, shady places in woodland and rocky hills and on termite mounds. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | CAR, Sudan, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
| Malawi distribution: | C,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 23 October 2015 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 48. Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 137 - 138. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 19. |
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