Gnidia fastigiata Rendle

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About 375m south of log house at old stables, Chelinda, Nyika National Park.

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Synonyms:	Gnidia holstii Engl. & Gilg Struthiola holstii Engl.
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Description:	Small shrubby herb, 15–40 cm high, with numerous erect branches growing from a woody rootstock. Leaves alternate, sessile, crowded on the upper part of the branches, elliptic to narrowly ovate, 6–16 mm long, rigid, somewhat wrinkled, more or less densely silky hairy beneath, only sparsely so above. Inflorescences terminal or axillary in clusters of 1–4 flowers, sessile or very shortly stalked. Bracts 2–4, leaf-like, 7–8 mm long, silky hairy. Flowers 4-merous, pale blue, whitish or yellow. Calyx tube 4–8 mm long, densely hairy; lobes ovate, 2–2.5 mm long, hairy outside. Petals 8, linear, membranous, less than 1 mm long.
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Worldwide distribution:	Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe.
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Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 276. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 28. 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 80. Peterson, B. (updated by Verdcourt, B.) (2006). Thymelaeaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(3) Page 98. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Pages 179 - 180. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 100.

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