Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Small shrub up to c. 1.3 m tall, growing from a long taproot. Branches greyish-brown hairy, becoming more or less hairless and reddish-brown. Leaves alternate, ovate to ovate-oblong, up to 6.5 cm long, more or less densely greyish to greyish-brown hairy on both surfaces; margin irregularly serrate; petiole 5-15 mm long. Flowers in axillary 1-few-flowered shortly pecunculate clusters. Sepals linear, 6-9 mm long, reflexed, hairy; petals yellow, oblong-lanceolate, 4-5 mm long; stamens 9-10, c.6 mm long. Fruit up to 6 mm in diameter covered in numerous slender spiny bristles; bristles covered in stellate hairs and a short tuft of 6-8 terminal setae.
- 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). Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138690
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Frequency
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Frequent
- 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). Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138690
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Angola, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
- 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). Triumfetta dekindtiana Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=138690
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings