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| Frequency: | Only known from the type specimen. |
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| Description: |
Shrub 1–2 m tall. Main leaves more or less elliptic; margin entire; leaves subtending inflorescences sessile, ovate to ovate-elliptic, 25–78 mm, shallowly cordate at the base, with scattered above. Flowers with corolla pinkish-white, 12.3–14 mm long, pubescent outside; tube 7.5–8.2 mm long, cylindric and abruptly widening in a throat; upper lip broadly triangular and hooded, 4–5 mm long, 2-lobed at the apex; lower lip 3-lobed, 5–5.8 mm long, palate somewhat raised with a herring-bone pattern, hairless. glabrous. Capsule 18–19 mm long, stipitate, hairless. |
| Type location: |
Mt Mulanje, Malawi |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | perdita: meaning “lost”, referring to the fact that the holotype collection was long lost, and also that this species may well be lost due to destruction of its forest habitat. |
| Habitat: | In shade near a stream in moist submontane rainforest. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1300 m (approx) |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Known only from Mt Mulanje, Southern Malawi. |
| National distribution: | S |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Extinct? |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Polhill, R.M., Magombo, Z. & Timberlake, J.R. (2021). Two new species from the mountains of southern Malawi and northern Mozambique Kew Bulletin 76(1) onli Pages 2 - 4. Protologue (Includes a picture). |
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