Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
hirtellum: finely and minutely hairy
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Brachystelma hirtellum Weim. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=146230
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Description
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Perennial with an annual stem up to 30 cm, growing from a tuber. Leaves strongly folded, obovate to oblong, densely pilose. Flowers 1-2 in the leaf axils. Corolla 16-18 mm long without a tube, lobes united into a cage. Outer corona incised into erect linear lobes; inner lobes as long or slightly longer than the gymnostegium.
- 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). Brachystelma hirtellum Weim. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=146230
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
South Africa, Zimbabwe
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- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Brachystelma hirtellum Weim. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=146230
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
