Raphionacme chimanimania Venter & R.L. Verh.

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Hadange Gorge, Chimanimani National Park

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Status:	Native
Description:	Small erect herb up to 10 cm high, growing from a tuber. Leaves opposite, sessile, linear-lanceolate, 7-9 cm long, hairy and glandular above. Inflorescences lax, terminal and axillary. Corolla tube campanulate, 3-4 mm long, hairy outside; lobes ovate to obovate, 10-12 mm long, spreading, hairy outside, magenta to whitish. Corona with 7-10 mm long, filiform, hairless. Fruit in erect, paired follicles, very narrowly ellipsoid, c. 45 mm long.
Notes:	This species was previously believed to occur in Northern South Africa too but that is now considered a different species called R. villicorona.
Derivation of specific name:	chimanimaniana: of the Chimanimani Mts.
Habitat:	In rocky montane grassland on quartzite sandstone.
Altitude range: (metres)	2000 m (approx)
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Worldwide distribution:	Chimanimani Mts, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
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Endemic status:	Near Endemic
Red data list status:	Vulnerable
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Images last updated:	Wednesday 13 March 2024
Literature:	Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 171. Goyder, D.J., Gilbert, M.G. & Venter, H.J.T. (2020). Apocynaceae (Part 2) Flora Zambesiaca 7(2) Page 45. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 88.

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