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| Date: | 9 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 166 |
| Determiner(s): | FM Chase (née Crawford) |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi: Nsundwa ?: S. 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: | Slender shrub, up to 2.5 m high. Stem slender, erect, unbranched, green, terete with dense indumentum (scabrid yellow hairs with red-brown podia). Leaves alternate, paripinnately decompound; stipules paired, broadly deltoid, apex acute, brown, membranous; petiole 1 cm long, characters as for stem; rachis as for petiole; lamina lanceolate, somewhat falcate, up to 12 x 1.5 cm; pinna ovate, 8 x 2 mm, apex apiculate, base oblique, margin entire, glabrous, subsessile, tend to fold closed along rhachis. Flowers large, showy, 35 mm in diameter, borne in axillary racemes; peduncle : 15 cm, characters as for petiole; pedicel 1-2 cm long. Petals golden yellow to orange. Sepals 5, green, broadly ovate, pubescent. Stamens and stigma not well exerted. Fruit: a pod, up to 100 x 6 mm, flattened, slightly falcate, apex apiculate, clearly constricted between seeds so as to appear segmented, glabrous. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.875000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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