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Dorstenia buchananii var buchananii
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Section |
Kosaria |
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Type
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Herb |
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Body |
Tuber / caudex, 1-5 cm in diameter, colour varies from yellowish brown to greenish with seasonal stems
growing from it, stems often branched or unbranched, at least with
arrested branches with reduced leaves. |
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Height |
Up to 90 cm |
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Leaves |
Leaves in spirals, at te bottom only small and
underdeveloped but higher on normal in size, up to10 cm long and
6 cm wide. Leaves are thin and turn yellow and papery when
dry. |
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Flowers |
Abstract flowers, flowers solitary, flower stems
0,5-2 cm long, oval receptable 2 cm by 1 cm, only two
appendages, upper appendage 8-10 cm, lower 1,5-2 cm,
occasionally absent |
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Reproduction |
Seed |
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Area |
In Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia &
Zimbabwe;
In evergreen forest, deciduous woodland and riverine forest,
often in rocky places;
At altitudes op to 1700 m. |
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Taxonomical details |
D. buchananii Engler var. buchananii
Rendle, J. Bot. 53: 302. 1915. D. caudata Engler (1900a);
D. unicaudata Engler (1914). |
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