Coldenia procumbens
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Urema floodplain, road no4 between 2 and 3, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain, road no4 between 2 and 3, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain, road no4 between 2 and 3, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
Urema floodplain, road no4 between 2 and 3, Gorongosa National Park.
Photo: Bart Wursten
On floodplain between Tinley transects 1 and 2, Gorongosa National Park
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| Status: | Native |
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Procumbent annual herb with much-branched radiating stems up to c. 40 cm long Leaves alternate, numerous, oblong, obovate to almost round, usually up to 2.5 cm long, plicate with dense appressed hairs diverging from the veins above, with dense long glandular hairs below; margin deeply crenate to almost lobed. Flowers solitary, small, white, mostly hidden among the leaves. Fruit depressed ovoid, 4-5 mm in diameter, 4-lobed, beaked with irregular protuberances, brownish, dividing into 2 pairs of nutlets. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | procumbens: with stems lying along the ground; procumbent |
| Habitat: | In floodplains and seasonally flooded river banks, mostly on sandy or muddy soils. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa, Madagascar, tropical Asia and tropical Australia. |
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| Literature: |
Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22 SANBI, Pretoria Page 52. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 30. Martins, E.S. (1990). Boraginaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(4) Pages 79 - 81. (Includes a picture). Taton, A. (1971). Boraginaceae Flore du Congo du Rwanda et du Burundi Jardin Botanique National de Belgique Pages 26 - 27. (Includes a picture). |
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