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Dissotis hensii
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Itindi Community, Oriental, DR Congo. © Botanic Garden Meise
Photo: Bart Wursten
Itindi Community, Oriental, DR Congo. © Botanic Garden Meise
Photo: Bart Wursten
Itindi Community, Oriental, DR Congo. © Botanic Garden Meise
Photo: Bart Wursten
Itindi Community, Oriental, DR Congo. © Botanic Garden Meise
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Perennial herb up to 1 m high. Stems and branches 4-angled, rough with short, appressed bristles. Leaves ovate,oblong-ovate or lanceolate, 5.5-12.5 cm long; fairly thinly textures, light green above, paler beneath, sparsely covered in short bristles on both surfaces, 3-7-veined; veins impressed above, prominent beneath; margin with fine bristly teeth; petiole 1-4 cm long. Flowers in lax, branched terminal heads; receptacle c. 4 × 2.5 mm, cylindric, sparsely covered in short rough bristles. Sepals lanceolate, 3 mm long; intersepalar segments short, bristly at the top. Petals 7-8 mm long, pink. Anthers in 2 forms, c 4 mm long. Fruiting receptacle ovoid, 6-8 mm long, with distinctly raised veins. Capsule subspherical, shorter than the receptacle. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC and Zambia. |
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Fernandes, R. & A. (1978). Melastomataceae Flora Zambesiaca 4 Page 252. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 76. |
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