Dyschoriste trichocalyx (Oliv.) Lindau
subsp. verticillaris (C.B. Clarke) Vollesen

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Dyschoriste trichocalyx subsp. verticillaris

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Near site of former Kingsley Fairbridge memorial, Cecil Kop NR

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Synonyms:	Calophanes verticillaris Oliv. Dyschoriste verticillaris C.B. Clarke
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Description:	Perennial, sometimes shrubby herb growing from a woody rootstock. Stems mostly erect, rarely scrambling or decumbent, up to 1.5 m tall, more or less densely velvety, usually also with scattered stalked capitate glands and longer hairs. Leaves opposite, ovate to elliptic, 3-10.5 cm long, more or less densely velvety on both surfaces, usually more densely along the veins below. Flowers in axillary 3-15-flowered clusters often congested towards tip of stems; bracts narrowly elliptic, up to 2 cm long, sometimes with capitate glands. Calyx usually with viscid glandular short hairs and longer non-glandular hairs. Corolla distinctly 2-lipped, pale mauve-purple to bluish-purple, usually with darker markings on lower lip and in throat, 14-35 mm long; lobes oblong, deflexed in lower. Capsule 8-12 mm long.
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Worldwide distribution:	DRC, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
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Literature:	Baumann, G. (2005). Photographic Guide to Wildflowers of Malawi Wildlife and Environmental Society of Malawi Pages 132 - 133. as Dyschoriste verticillaris (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 48. as Dyschoriste verticillaris (Includes a picture). Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 18. As Dyschoriste verticillaris 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. as Dyschoriste verticillaris Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 34. as Dyschoriste verticillaris Vollesen, K. (2013). Acanthaceae (Part 1) Flora Zambesiaca 8(5) Pages 128 - 131. (Includes a picture).

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