Pentas zanzibarica (Klotzsch) Vatke
subsp. milangiana (Verdc.) Verdc.

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Disturbed and secondary slopes below Namuli peak, Serra de Gurue

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Lower slopes Mt Mabu

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Synonyms:	Pentas zanzibarica (Klotzsch) Vatke var. milangiana Verdc.
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Status:	Native
Description:	Robust, erect, shrubby perennial herb, up to 2 m tall, rarely taller. Stems moslty unbranched, often purplish, in this subspecies leafy and densely hairy. Leaves opposite or sometimes 3-whorled, 4-14.5 cm long, olanceolate, elliptic or ovate, hairy on both surfaces, in this subspecies with veins distinctly raised and hairy beneath; petiole up to 1 cm long. Flowers in fairly lax to subglobose, terminal and axillary heads, mostly lilac or mauve-blue, pink or white; corolla tube in this subspecies normally short, c. 5 mm long. Fruit a capsule, 3-5.5 mm long, pubescent, with a short beak, 1-2 mm long.
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Derivation of specific name:	zanzibarica: from Zanzibar; milangiana: from Mt Mulanje in Malawi, where the type specimen of this subspecies was found.
Habitat:	Along forest edges, in bracken scrub, sometimes in pine plantations.
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Worldwide distribution:	This subspecies is only known from montane areas in southern Malawi and northern Mozambique.
Malawi distribution:	S
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Content last updated:	Thursday 1 October 2015
Literature:	Darbyshire, I., Timberlake, J., Osborne, J., Rokni, S., Matimele, H., Langa. C., Datizua, C., de Sousa, C., Alves, T., Massingue, A., Hadj-Hammou, J., Dhanda, S., Shah, T., Wursten, B. (2019). The endemic plants of Mozambique: diversity and conservation status Phytotaxa 136 Page 93. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 166. Verdcourt, B. (1988). Rubiaceae, Part 1 Flora Zambesiaca 5(1) Pages 75 - 76.

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