Derivation of specific name
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Inglês
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fornecido por Flora of Zimbabwe
petersiana: named after Professor Wilhelm Peters (1815-1863) of Berlin who collected in Mozambique in the early 19th century.
- licença
- cc-by-nc
- direitos autorais
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citação bibliográfica
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Vitex petersiana Klotzsch Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148950
- autor
- Mark Hyde
- autor
- Bart Wursten
- autor
- Petra Ballings
Description
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Inglês
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fornecido por Flora of Zimbabwe
Multi-stemmed shrub or rarely a small tree. Bark grey fairly smooth; young branchlets velvety. Leaves opposite, 3-foliolate; leaflets broadly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, up to c. 5 × 3 cm, central leaflet largest, thinly textured, often somewhat greyish-green with a whitish bloom, hairless above,sometimes sparsely hairy on the midrib below; margin often with a few teeth in the upper half; petiolules absent on the lateral leaflets, usually short but distinct on the central leaflet. Flowers in few-flowered, axillary heads, c. 1 cm long, white with a purple-blue lower lip. Fruit ellipsoid, c. 1.2 cm long, fleshy, black when ripe, cupped by the persistent calyx.
- licença
- cc-by-nc
- direitos autorais
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citação bibliográfica
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Vitex petersiana Klotzsch Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148950
- autor
- Mark Hyde
- autor
- Bart Wursten
- autor
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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Inglês
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fornecido por Flora of Zimbabwe
Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe
- licença
- cc-by-nc
- direitos autorais
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citação bibliográfica
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Vitex petersiana Klotzsch Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148950
- autor
- Mark Hyde
- autor
- Bart Wursten
- autor
- Petra Ballings