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Trailing or erect, shrubby perennial herb. Plants often foetid-aromatic. Leaves opposite, ovate, up to 21 cm long, cordate at the base, sparsely hairy, mostly along the veins, margin coarsely toothed; petiole 2.5-10 cm long. Flowers in 1-9-flowered groups, together forming a large open, branched inflorescence, 15-35 cm long covered in purple-brown glandular hairs. Corolla 5-lobed, white to pale mauve with an orange-brown throat and 1-2 yellow markings and a band of long hairs on the lower lobe. Capsule 15-25 mm long, hairy and glandular, particularly in the apical part.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Mimulopsis solmsii Schweinf. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=153220
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Widespread in tropical Africa
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Mimulopsis solmsii

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Mimulopsis solmsii is a flowering plant from the family Acanthaceae. It is a native to the mountains of tropical Africa. It is the type species for the genus Mimulopsis.[3][4] [5] [6]

Description

It is a shrubby perennial herb, with a scrambling or erect form. Its leaves are ovate, opposite, and large, up to 21 cm, with a coarsely-toothed margin.[7]

Its flowers form a large open and branched inflorescence, 15-35 cm long, made up of 1 to 9-flowered groups. The flowers are five-petaled, white to pale mauve with an orange-brown throat and one or two yellow markings.[7]

Plants flower abundantly after 5 to 9 years, and die back after flowering.[7]

Range and habitat

Mimulopsis solmsii is native to the mountains of tropical Africa, including Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone in West Africa, Cameroon, Nigeria, and the Gulf of Guinea Islands in west-central Africa, and Ethiopia, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe in eastern Africa.[2]

It grows in the understorey of and along the margins of evergreen montane forests between 950 and 2300 meters elevation.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Mimulopsis G". Index Nominum Genericorum. International Association for Plant Taxonomy. 1996-02-09. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
  2. ^ a b Mimulopsis solmsii Schweinf. Plants of the World Online, Kew Science. Accessed 21 September 2022.
  3. ^ Aluka. "Mimulopsis solmsii Schweinf. var. solmsii [family ACANTHACEAE]". African Plants. Ithaka Harbors, Inc. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
  4. ^ Nkurunungi, John Bosco; Jessica Ganas; Martha M. Robbins; Craig B. Stanford (2004). "A comparison of two mountain gorilla habitats in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda" (PDF). African Journal of Ecology. 42 (4): 289–297. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2028.2004.00523.x. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-06-13. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
  5. ^ Richards, P. W. (November 1963). "Ecological Notes on West African Vegetation III. The Upland Forests of Cameroons Mountain". The Journal of Ecology. British Ecological Society. 51 (3): 529–554. doi:10.2307/2257746. JSTOR 2257746.
  6. ^ Jackson, J. K. (July 1956). "The Vegetation of the Imatong Mountains, Sudan". The Journal of Ecology. British Ecological Society. 44 (2): 341–374. doi:10.2307/2256827. JSTOR 2256827.
  7. ^ a b c d Mimulopsis solmsii Schweinf. Flora of Zimbabwe. Accessed 21 September 2022.

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Mimulopsis solmsii: Brief Summary

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Mimulopsis solmsii is a flowering plant from the family Acanthaceae. It is a native to the mountains of tropical Africa. It is the type species for the genus Mimulopsis.

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