dcsimg

Description

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Dwarf perennial with an erect, simple or sparsely branched annual stem, growing from a tuber. Leaves spreading erect, rather variable, mostly lanceolate to elliptic, up to 50 × 8 mm, finely hairy. Flowers on short pedicels in axillary 9-12-flowered clusters. Corolla c. 10 mm in diameter wheel-shaped with a shallow tube; lobes ovate-triangular, light green with dense brown blotches, densely puberulous outside, hairless inside. Outer corona cup-shaped with squarish, 2-toothed lobes overtopping the staminal column; inner lobes linear. The flowers have a foetid smell. Fruits cylindric. See B. richardsii for comparison.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Brachystelma dinteri Schltr. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=146170
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Zimbabwe. Namibia
license
cc-by-nc
copyright
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Brachystelma dinteri Schltr. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=146170
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe