Details of record no: 60141

Orbea rogersii (L. Bolus) Bruyns

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Record details:

Date:	Mar 1964
Recorder(s):	L Walter
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Determiner(s):	L Walter
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Herbarium:
Habitat:	In varying soils, lightly treed with mopane and other trees.
Location:	Mwenezi (Nuanetsi) in scattered locations
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Planted code:	Not planted
Country:	Zimbabwe
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FZ Division:	S
Altitude (metres):	0
Notes:	Literature: "Stapeliads in Rhodesia" by D.C.H.Plowes, Excelsa No 1, 1971. He comments appropriately "...numerous transparent whitish curly hairs are each tipped with a minute clear glistening pearl". Comment: although now classed as "Critically endangered", this was not the case in Nuanetsi in 1964, and hopefully will still be so now. As can be seen from image number 1, flowering was prolific.
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Location Accuracy Code:	0

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Image: 1

Species id:	146730
Image id:	1
Image number:	17486
Photographer:	L Walter
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Image notes:	Literature: "Stapeliads in Rhodesia" by D.C.H.Plowes, Excelsa No 1, 1971. He comments appropriately "...numerous transparent whitish curly hairs are each tipped with a minute clear glistening pearl". Comment: although now classed as "Critically endangered", this was not the case in Nuanetsi in 1964, and hopefully will still be so now. As can be seen from image number 1, flowering was prolific.

Image: 2

Species id:	146730
Image id:	2
Image number:	17482
Photographer:	L Walter
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Image notes:	Literature: "Stapeliads in Rhodesia" by D.C.H.Plowes, Excelsa No 1, 1971. He comments appropriately "...numerous transparent whitish curly hairs are each tipped with a minute clear glistening pearl". Comment: although now classed as "Critically endangered", this was not the case in Nuanetsi in 1964, and hopefully will still be so now. As can be seen from image number 1, flowering was prolific.