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Section |
Acauloma |
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Type
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Herb |
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Body |
tuberous, oval to pear shaped |
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Height |
lenght of leaf stems can be up to 12 cm |
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Leafs |
broad, shiny green round to slightly oval succulent leaf |
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Flowers |
stem up to 26 cm, flowers are best described as the most
alien of all Dorstenia. bottom part wide up to 4 cm and thinning
out to the top. Flowers vary in the number of appendages on the sides, some
even have only a few near the stem, one on the top and none on
the sides. |
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Reproduction |
Unknown (yet) |
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Area |
From Cameroun to Somalia and Yemen, southwards to Congo, Zaire,
Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, possibly also in Zambia.
In wooden and open (often recently burned or grazed) grassland
Often on shallow soils overlying rock
At altitudes up to 2300 m. |
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Taxonomical details |
D. barnimiana Schweinfurth var barnimiana (1863). D. barnimiana
var. angustior Engler (1901); D. barnimiana var. ophioglossoides
(Bureau) Engler (1898); D. barnimiana var. telekii (Schweinfurth)
Engler (1898); D. ophioglossoides Bureau (1873); D. palmata
Engler (1894), non Willdenow ex Schultes (1827); D. palmata var.
integrifolia Chiovenda (1939); D. telekii Schweinfurth (1892);
D. triternata Chiovenda (1940). |
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