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Petalidium aromaticum
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Much-branched shrubby aromatic perennial herb up to 1 m tall. Stems and branches covered in greyish-white glandular hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate to lanceolate, glandular hairy. Flowers axillary, solitary, white, with brown veins in the corolla throat, held between ovate bracts. |
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| Notes: | Though not listed in the List of Endemic Plant Species (Mapaura in Kirkia 18-1, 2002), this plant, with its very limited range should qualify as a Near-Endemic |
| Derivation of specific name: | aromaticum: aromatic |
| Habitat: | In open deciduous bushland on stony slopes. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 550 m |
| Flowering time: | Aug - Oct |
| Worldwide distribution: | Limpopo, South Africa and southern Zimbabwe |
| National distribution: | S |
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| Endemic status: | Near Endemic? |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 14. van der Walt, R. (2009). Wild Flowers of the Limpopo Valley Retha van der Walt, Musina, South Africa Page 6. as subsp. canescens (Includes a picture). Vollesen, K. (2013). Acanthaceae (Part 1) Flora Zambesiaca 8(5) Pages 156 - 158. As Petalidium aromaticum (Includes a picture). |
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