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Neorautanenia amboensis Schinz

Description

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Sub-erect, scrambling or occasionally prostrate perennial herb up to c. 1 m tall, growing from a large underground tuber. Stems pale yellowish-brown, up to 1.5 m long. Leaves 3-foliolate, blue-green with yellow veining; leaflets rhombic-obovate to almost round, entire to somewhat 3-lobed; lateral lobes somewhat asymmetric, more or less densely velvety. Inflorescences in axillary racemes, 6-29 cm long with 2-3 flowers at each node. Standard dark blue to mauve inside, more greyish outside. Pods linear-oblong, up to 10.5 × 1.7 cm, densely covered in short and longer hairs, dehiscent.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Neorautanenia brachypus (Harms) C.A. Sm. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=131370
author
Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Worldwide distribution

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Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
license
cc-by-nc
copyright
Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Neorautanenia brachypus (Harms) C.A. Sm. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=131370
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe