Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Erect biennial or perennial herb up to c. 50 cm tall. Stem slender, 4-ridged, mostly unbranched. Leaves at the base more or less in a rosette, linear-lanceolate, up to 7 × 1 cm, usually no longer present at flowering time; leaves along the stem opposite, oblong-elliptic, up to 6 × 1 cm. Flowers in a lax terminal cyme, bright pink, pink-mauve or rarely white, c. 2 cm in diameter. Fruit an oblong-ovoid capsule, up to 7 × 3.5mm.
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- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Chironia purpurascens (E. Mey.) Benth. & Hook. f.
subsp. humilis (Gilg) I. Verd. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144800
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa. Subsp. purpurascens occurs in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Swaziland.
- 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). Chironia purpurascens (E. Mey.) Benth. & Hook. f.
subsp. humilis (Gilg) I. Verd. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=144800
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
