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Date: | 09 Feb 1988 |
Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
Collector(s): | GL Maggs 175 |
Determiner(s): | GL Maggs |
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: Annual herb, 40 cm high when in flower. Stem erect, slender, terete, green to red-tinted especially basally with very fine, white, adpressed indumentum. Nodular sheaths brown, membranous, circumcaulate, conspicuously fringed along margin, persistent. Leaves alternate, simple to pinnati-lobate; lamina linear to imparipinnatisect, margin entire but revolute, apex acute, base sheathed, up to 40 x 7 mm, dull green, glabrous. Flowers in lax axillary/terminal racemes, small, 8 mm in diameter, subtended by fringed, membranous bract. Perianth segments free, 5, ovate, 4 x 1.5 mm, cream-coloured. Pedicel at most 5 mm long. Fruit a capsule, obcuneate to deltoid, 2-3 spiny projections at base, 7 mm long, green, pubescent, floral remains persistent apically. |
Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000,24.875000 |
Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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