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| Date: | 09 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 169 |
| Determiner(s): | C Mannheimer |
| Confirmer(s): | |
| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi: Nsundwa?: South of Schuckmannsburg: - marshy plain along river. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D2 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Herb; Notes: Prostrate herb. Stems trailing, limp, slender but gibbose, terete, green to maroon-tinted, glabrous or with scattered, fine, white indumentum. Leaves opposite but normally tending to cluster, simple, sessile; lamina narrowly ovate to lanceolate, apex minutely apiculate, base cuneate, margin entire, somewhat revolute, midrib abaxially prominent, up to 40 x 30 mm, dull green to yellow-green to maroon-tinted, adaxially glabrous, abaxially with very sparse white adpressed indumentum. Flowers in axillary umbels, small, up to 3 mm in diameter; peduncle 2 - 45 mm long (usually elongating after flowering). Pedicel 4 - 10 mm long. Sepals 5, free, ovate, up to 3 x 1.5 mm, pink with hyaline margins. Petals lacking. Stamens 10; filaments pink; anthers cream-coloured. Common: especially in disturbed areas!. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000,24.875000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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