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| Date: | 15 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 279 |
| Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
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| Location: | Caprivi: 7 km along turn-off to Chinchimane from National Road. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724C3 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Notes: 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. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.875000,24.125000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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