Craterostigma plantagineum Hochst.

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Caprivi records: View all records (31)

Records of this taxon from Caprivi are shown in the table below. Cases where the taxon is native, naturalised, possibly planted or definitely planted are all listed.

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Record number    No of images    Record date    Recorder(s)    Coll.    Det.    Conf.    Herbaria    Habitat    Location    Loc code(s)    Outing code    Planted code    Country    QDS    Grid ref.    FZ Div    Alt. (m)    Notes    Lat    Long    Loc Acc Code   
94324015 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
279
GL Maggs
WIND

Caprivi: 7 km along turn-off to Chinchimane from National Road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C3 0Notes: Low-growing, sub-aquatic perennial, 50-80 mm when in flower. Stem compact. Roots fibrous, red-coloured. Leaves fascicled, simple, subsessile; lamina elliptic, apex acute, base cuneate to decurrent, margin entire and conspicuously ciliate, 4 x 1 cm, adaxially yellow-green with scattered white adpressed indumentum, abaxially purple-tinted with dense indumentum of same type as above, fairly erect and not prostrate on substrate, coriaceous. Flowers borne in axillary racemes with normally only 1 flower opening at a time, 5 mm in diameter, bilabiate; peduncle slender, green, 3-4 cm long, densely pubescent. Floral bracts foliaceous, paired, green, conspicuously ciliate and pubescent; petals fused, blue to purplish with white puckered striations and yellow throat. Terminalia sericea predominant.-17.87500024.1250004
94626020 Dec 1958DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3000
WIND

Caprivi: Ngoma area. 9 miles north of Ngoma.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D3 929Herb; Notes: Locally common in mopane woodland. Prostrate herb, 3 - 5 feet. Flowers blue with white edging and yellow honey guides.-17.87500024.6250004

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-25

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2025). Flora of Caprivi: Species information: Records of: Craterostigma plantagineum.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/species-display.php?species_id=151360, retrieved 8 April 2025

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