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Macledium plantaginifolium
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Mazabuka, Chisoba Farm.
Photo: Noleen Parsons
Mazabuka, Chisoba Farm.
Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka SE, Protea Hill Farm.
Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka SE, Protea Hill Farm.
Photo: Noleen Parsons
Mazabuka, Chisoba Farm.
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Dicoma nana Welw. ex Hiern Dicoma plantaginifolia O. Hoffm. Dicoma pygmaea Hutch. Dicoma quinquenervia sensu F.C. Wilson p.p. non Baker |
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A perennial herb, usually acaulescent, occasionally developing a short aerial stem. Leaves few to numerous, prostrate, discolorous, up to 20 × 12 cm. Capitula subsessile, solitary or up to 7 clustered in the leaf rosette or before the leaves appear. The outer phyllaries (bracts) stiff and sharply pointed, greenish or straw coloured. Corollas yellowish, green or brownish, usually with purplish lobes. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia and Angola. |
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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 91. as Dicoma plantaginifolia Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 29. as Dicoma plantaginifolia Pope, G.V. (1992). Compositae Flora Zambesiaca 6(1) Page 34. As Dicoma plantaginifolia Wild, H. (1972). The Compositae of the Flora Zambesiaca area. 3. Mutisieae. Kirkia 8(2) Page 180. as Dicoma platagifolia |
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