Gibasis pellucida (M. Martens & Galeotti) Hunt

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Gibasis pellucida

Photo: Bart Wursten
Seldomseen, Vumba

Gibasis pellucida

Photo: Bart Wursten
Ndundu Lodge, Vumba

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Description: Creeping, sprawling herb, rooting at the nodes. Leaves 2.5 - 10 cm long, sessile, distichous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate; base asymmetric, rounded to cordate. Cymes in pairs. Flowers 7-14 mm in diameter, white.
Notes: Frequently cultivated and occasionally escaping in high rainfall areas.
Derivation of specific name: pellucida: through which light passes, transparent
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Worldwide distribution: Native to Mexico.
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Image last updated: Sunday 6 June 2010
Literature:

Walters, S.M. et al. (eds) (1984). The European Garden Flora. Vol. II. Monocotyledons (Part II). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Page 28.

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Flora of Zimbabwe: Gibasis pellucida

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Gibasis pellucida
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Gibasis pellucida
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated Plants: Species information: Gibasis pellucida.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/species.php?species_id=164820, retrieved 29 March 2024

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