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Dorstenia picta
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Section |
Lecanium |
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Type
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Herb |
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Body |
Creeping to ascending leafy stem, partly
subterraneous, rooting. 2,5-5 mm thick |
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Height |
Up to 1 m long |
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Leaves |
In spirals, sometimes subrosulate, orbicular,
broadly to narrowly elliptic, ovata, obovate or lanceolate, 4-19
x 2,5-12 cm |
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Flowers |
Mostly solitary, peduncle initially erect, 1-7 cm
long, flowering face purple, 0,7-2 cm in diameter, fringe up to
1,5 mm broad |
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Reproduction |
Infrutescens unknown, seed |
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Area |
In SE Nigeria, Cameroun, Gabon and Congo;
In forest, usually along rivers, often in periodically flooded
places, often among rocks;
At altitudes up to 1000 m. |
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Taxonomical details |
D. picta Bureau in De Candolle, Prodr. 17:
277. 1873. D. variegata Engler (1898). |
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