Rorippa madagascariensis
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Along road no. 11, Gorongosa National park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road no. 11, Gorongosa National park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road no. 11, Gorongosa National park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road no. 11, Gorongosa National park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road no. 11, Gorongosa National park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road no. 11, Gorongosa National park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along road no. 11, Gorongosa National park
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| Synonyms: |
Nasturium humifusum Guill. & Perr. Nasturtium madagascariense DC. Rorippa humifusa (Guill. & Perr.) Hiern |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Almost stemless herb. Leaves numerous, forming a rosette, pinnate or pinnatipartite, up to 16 cm long, rhachis winged, leaflets irregularly suborbicular to broadly ovate, crenate or sometimes deeply divided. Flowers white, with pedicels 1–1.5 mm long, in decumbent racemes up to 10 cm long in the axils of the basal leaves. Petals, less than 1 mm. long. Stamens 6. Fruit 6–10 mm long, hairless, style persistent. |
| Type location: |
Madagascar |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | madagascariensis: of Madagascar. |
| Habitat: | On damp sandy soils on riverbanks and at the margins of pans. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Fairly widespread in tropical Africa and in Madagascar. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Exell, A.W. (1960). Brassicaceae Flora Zambesiaca 1(1) Page 185. As Rorippa humifusa Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22 SANBI, Pretoria Page 53. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 76. |
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