Description
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Small perennial herbs; roots often red, orange or yellow. Leaves arranged in a basal rosette, usually entire, glabrous above and pubescent beneath; the venation usually palmate. Flowers borne in short pedunculate racemes or (rarely) flowers solitary. Bracts usually opposite. Calyx 5-toothed, accrescent; lobes ± equal. Corolla 2-lipped, 4-5-lobed; tube funnel-shaped; upper lip entire or shortly 2-lobed, hooded; lower lip 3-lobed, longer than the upper. Stamens 4, fertile, didynamous; upper pair included within hood. Nectary absent. Ovary 2-locular; ovules many. Fruit a septicidal capsule. Seeds with thin-walled epidermis.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Craterostigma Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=1279
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- Petra Ballings
Description
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Small perennial herb, usually less than 12 cm tall. Leaves erect, in a basal rosette, lanceolate, densely pubescent on both surfaces. Inflorescence up to 10 cm tall, racemose. Flowers mauve-purple, white towards the centre, 2-lipped; lower lip 3-lobed; lobes obtuse.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Craterostigma sp. no. 1 cf. lanceolatum Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=181340
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Frequency
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Locally common in the E Highlands (especially the Vumba)
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Craterostigma sp. no. 1 cf. lanceolatum Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=181340
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Craterostigma: Brief Summary
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Craterostigma is a genus of shrub-like flowering plants in the family Linderniaceae, found in Africa, Madagascar, (island of) Socotra, the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian Subcontinent, Sri Lanka, China, Southeast Asia and Java. The best studied species is the resurrection plant Craterostigma plantagineum, known for its unique drought tolerance.
The word 'craterostigma' comes from two Greek words, krateros meaning cup-shaped and stigma, part of the female reproductive part of a flower.
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