Barleria descampsii
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Haut-Katanga, Kinsevere Mine
Mar 2016
Photo: Warren McCleland
Haut-Katanga, Kinsevere Mine
Mar 2016
Photo: Warren McCleland
Haut-Katanga, Kinsevere Mine
Mar 2016
Photo: Warren McCleland
Haut-Katanga, Kinsevere Mine
Mar 2016
Photo: Warren McCleland
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Barleria argentea-calycina De Wild. Barleria briartii De Wild. Barleria paludosa S. Moore |
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Perennial 60-100 cm tall; stems with dense ascending or appressed golden to silvery long-armed stellate hairs. Leaves ovate, elliptic or lanceolate. Inflorescence congested, elongate to subcapitate, rarely more lax, each cymule single-flowered, bracts foliaceous. Anterior calyx lobe oblong to obovate to elliptic, surface densely covered in ascending golden or silvery long-armed stellate hairs, venation obscured by indumentum. Corolla mauve or lilac with whitish tube, whole flower rarely white, shortly glandular-pubescent externally. |
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DRC |
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| Derivation of specific name: | descampsii: in honour of Louis Auguste Deschamps (1765-1842) |
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| Flowering time: | Mar |
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| Literature: |
Darbyshire, I., Vollesen, K. & Kelbessa, E. (2015). Acanthaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 8(6) Pages 91 - 92. |
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